They'll have their name engraved on the trophy but Blake Dean still struggles to shake the hollow feeling inside.
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Because as deserving as Western District are of the Cricket ACT Douglas Cup, this is hardly the way the player-coach wanted his side to be crowned premiers.
Minor premiership winners Wests ultimately claimed the title when the three-day grand final against Weston Creek Molonglo was cancelled in the midst of the coronavirus outbreak.
It marks the second first grade premiership Wests have claimed without playing a full grand final this season, having claimed the Twenty20 crown in a rain-affected affair last month.
It is a frustrating way for the season to end given Wests and Creek had been the standout sides in the long format and were poised for a mouth-watering battle in the decider.
It would have been star-studded to say the least - Dean, Ethan Bartlett, Matt Condon, Scott Murn and co against John Rogers, Robbie Trickett, Djali Bloomfield, Joe Slater and the like.
"There's a lot going on about the competition not being as strong as it was 10 or 20 years ago," Dean said.
"But you look at those two teams that were about to play each other in that grand final, and they're as strong a team as I've seen in Canberra cricket in my 10 years, that's for sure.
"That game was going to be a belter I reckon, so that's disappointing. Don't get me wrong, I'm stoked, five premierships for Wests is an insane achievement and something we definitely deserve after finishing as minor premiers.
"It's more the fact, definitely in first grade, that was going to be one hell of a game."
Cricket ACT officials opted to scrap all two-day grand finals and award premierships to the top-ranked teams in the interest of public health.
As such Wests walk away with premierships in all five men's grades to bring their tally to 11 flags from a possible 13 across all three formats.
It is a remarkable turnaround for a club which went without a premiership last season following Dean and Michael Minns' push to recruit talent and promote juniors into the senior ranks.
"[The ending] is bizarre from a first grade perspective, but not from a club perspective," Dean said.
"From a club perspective we look back and know we were the dominant club in the competition, I think everyone knew that. We earned that right.
"From a first grade perspective, we'll go down with our names on those trophies and they were probably deserved but you just don't know without that grand final.
"We didn't get to play Tuggeranong which would have been a good game in the Twenty20 format, and we proved to ourselves in Adelaide we are a very good Twenty20 outfit, finishing fourth in the country in a national competition which people didn't expect either.
"I feel a bit for Bucky and the boys at Weston Creek having played with them for so long. It would be a bit of a hollow feeling.
"It also sucks for us, that moment [in the semi-final] when Murny hit the ball over mid-on when we were nine down for us to make the grand final, it ended up winning us the premiership in a way.
"It's a funny season. I don't want to take away from the season at all because you want to have a positive outlook, but I do feel for the teams who didn't get to compete on that day."