• Updates in the build-up to the premiership decider at the MCG
• After the pre-game entertainment the match starts at 2:30pm AEST
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Everyone’s second favourite event on grand final day is about the take place with the heats of the grand final sprint. Here are our runners for today, with a few hearts no doubt to be in mouths at least among Blues and Tigers fans. Josh Weddle is the first of my tips for the day.

Adelaide: Will Hamill
Brisbane: Will McLachlan
Carlton: Orazio Fantasia
Collingwood: Beau McCreery
Essendon: Ben Hobbs
Fremantle: Jeremy Sharp
Geelong: Shaun Mannagh
Gold Coast: Tom Berry
GWS Giants: Nathan Wardius
Hawthorn: Josh Weddle
Melbourne: Oliver Sestan
North Melbourne: Eddie Ford
Port Adelaide: Jed McEntee
Richmond: Dion Prestia
St Kilda: Darcy Wilson
Sydney: Angus Sheldrick
West Coast: Jai Culley
Western Bulldogs: Riley Garcia