So much this. After our pre season and that first half if you looked up the word "deflated" in the dictionary you would see a picture of a Saints diehard after that match.I guess it's totally irrelevant now, but I wonder how our Membership would have looked had we not lost to North Melbourne in round 1 last year.
Sure, you would take the end result of last season over a season where you win a few and then fade and miss finals every day of the week but it was still such a shocking let down.
I even remember thinking something along the lines of "I hope the rona causes this whole season to get binned because I don't want to sit through this s**t again."
Anyway, I think next year will really show the dividends of the hard work the club has put in when it comes to membership.