AFL grand final LIVE: Get all the latest updates and scores as the Sydney Swans take on the Brisbane Lions at the MCG

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Will Tina Arena be booed during her big final performance?

Many Aussies are hoping the Sorrento Moon singer will feel the ire of the crowd when she joins headliner Katy Perry at the MCG later today.

There has been an online campaign encouraging fans to boo the 56-year-old – and their issues with her date back four years.

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Queues longer than a Malcolm Blight torpedo

Here’s another look at the wait the first arriving fans faced this morning…

Why some fans believe this simple photo shows who will win the flag

Here we see Lachie Neale and Dane Rampe placing the premiership trophy back on its stand after hoisting it in front of the fans during yesterday’s grand final parade.

A long-held superstition states that the team whose representative removes his hand from the mug first will lose the match, so… sorry about that, Swans fans.

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA – SEPTEMBER 27: Lachie Neale of the Lions is the last to touch the cup as Dane Rampe of the Swans looks on during the 2024 AFL Grand Final Parade on September 27, 2024 in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Michael Willson/AFL Photos via Getty Images)

Talk about excited!

Here’s the scene well before the membership gates opened just after 8am. Long day for these gamblers, who got up not long after sunrise.

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - SEPTEMBER 28: Football fans queue outside the members gates for the AFL Grand Final match between Sydney Swans and Brisbane Lions at Melbourne Cricket Ground, on September 28, 2024, in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Darrian Traynor/AFL Photos/Getty Images)

And they’re gone!

This is when fans started streaming to the G a few minutes ago. The AFL claims there is so much demand for tickets that the ground could sell out four times over.

G’day and welcome

The biggest day of the football year has finally arrived and Ny Breaking Australia has brought you the latest updates, scores and pictures as the Sydney Swans take on the Brisbane Lions at the MCG.

The MCG is seen ahead of the AFL Grand Final between the Sydney Swans and the Brisbane Lions at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne, Saturday September 28, 2024. (AAP Image/Con Chronis) NO ARCHIVING, EDITORIAL USE ONLY