BEING a Melbourne fan must be painful.

Just ask this Demons supporter who rode Sunday afternoon’s West Coast Adelaide game like a tidal wave.

Melbourne’s loss to Collingwood on Saturday and Essendon’s subsequent win over Fremantle meant the club’s finals chances hung by a thread ahead of the last game of the home and away season.

WATCH THE FLUCTUATING EMOTIONS OF THE DEMONS SUPPORTER IN THE VIDEO ABOVE

Finals Week 1

If Adelaide won, the Demons would play finals for the first time since 2006. Even a narrow Eagles victory would see Simon Goodwin’s men hold on.

As it turned out, West Coast won by 29 points and leapfrogged Melbourne by 0.5 per cent — the smallest margin any team has ever missed out on finals by.

With five minutes to play, Charlie Cameron appeared to muzzle the Eagles September plans and the Demons were back in the eight. Euphoria on the slopes of Mt Buller and the beaches of Port Douglas and Noosa turned to despair just two minutes later as Lewis Jetta and then Jack Darling extended the margin once again.

West Coast was home. It had won the battle and the war.

Melbourne, and this Demons fans, reacted as thousands more would have around the country.

And who can blame him? The drought continues.

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