Taking South Launceston's captaincy from uncle Chris Connolly in 2015, Brad Buchanan was worried about filling his boots.
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Fast forward to 2020 and the 23-year-old sits back as a four-time Greater Northern League premiership skipper, adding to his 2014 triumph under Connolly's leadership.
Saturday's 4-3 win over Burnie Baptist marked both Buchanan's and the Suns' fifth premiership in seven years, a feeling that the electrician described as "bloody awesome" after last year's extra-time defeat.
"Getting revenge from last year was the main thing I suppose - trying to redeem ourselves after a bit of a heartbreak," he said.
"We started off with a few players out in that first game [against Baptist] and our team slowly started to come back with the coronavirus stuff, everyone starting to come back to training.
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"We really got a flow going on towards the end of the season and we all felt somewhat untouchable with all the goals we were scoring, so it led well going into finals."
South Launceston scored 61 goals during the home-and-away season - the most for 2020 - while only conceding six despite the round two loss.
Buchanan finished fifth in the league's scoring tally with 12 majors but amazingly, he was South's third-highest scorer behind Kurt Budgeon (20) and Al McBain (14).
He said playing alongside the Tassie Tigers representative and his coach week after week is fantastic.
"We've been playing together for quite a well now so we link up quite well and we complement each other's game and it ends up on the scoreboard, which is good.
"We're always hanging out whether we're at hockey or just in normal time so it definitely helps when you've got your best mates playing with you."
While he took over the reins from his uncle, Connolly certainly isn't Buchanan's only family tie to the club.
Sister Lauren and cousin Hannah [Chris' daughter] don the blue and yellow for the Suns' GNL women's side but their connection began over 60 years ago as great grandfather Ted Lambert, grandfather Barry Buchanan and great uncle Graeme all played in South's 1957 state premiership.
"The family has always played for South and it's just such a nice club to be around," Buchanan said.
"Everyone is good mates and everyone supports each other - I'd never want to play for another club."
Buchanan's Saturday was made even better as his beloved St Kilda won their first finals appearance in nine years.