Fremantle Dockers v Brisbane Lions: AFL grand final 2026 – live

Updates from the premiership decider at the MCG First bounce in Melbourne is 2. 30pm AEST Any thoughts? Get in touch with an email Jai Arrow is at the official AFL grand final breakfast in Melbourne as the rugby league player’s diagnosis with motor neurone disease at the age of 30 crosses the divide between Australia’s most popular sporting codes. Brisbane are into a fourth straight grand final but the first in that run where they start as the favourites .

While we can’t be sure how the added expectation will weigh on Chris Fagan’s team, they have already shown they are at their best when playing a game that truly matters. Jonathan Horn will be at the MCG to report on the Lions’ chase for a premiership three-peat, and has already looked at why they have spent seven years at the pointy end of the ladder. ‘Give me 80,000 people at the MCG and I was Hercules,’ Brent Crosswell once said. ‘Give me a grey day at the Western Oval and I…