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

The PM has rocked up at the grand final breakfast decked out in a white shirt and red tie.

As a Hawthorn fan, you’d expect him to be as neutral as Switzerland on footy’s biggest day of the year. However, the born and bred Sydneysider was seen wearing a Swans scarf back in April in an act that gave more weight to his ‘Each-Way Albo’ nickname.

So has he turned his back on the Hawks for one game? Or is his outfit choice an attempt to shore up some votes in the harbour city?

Here’s Demons ruckman Max Gawn showing off the Ron Barassi medal, which will be awarded to the winning skipper after the final siren this afternoon.

Barassi was part of 10 premiership sides as a player and coach and the AFL branded him the most important figure in the game since World War Two.

The footy legend passed away last September, shortly before the grand final, aged 87.

The North Melbourne breakfast is a grand final day staple, but Albo did the Kangaroos no favours when he made his speech this morning.

The PM told the crowd that the function is ‘so far this century the only way to get North Melbourne and grand final into the same sentence’ as he kicked the struggling Shinboners while they’re down after their run of awful finishes in the last few seasons.

Albo then went on to bizarrely compare himself and Peter Dutton to Liam and Noel Gallagher from Oasis – but he copped a zinger from the MC, who introduced him by saying, ‘With the cost of living rising, no one is keener for a free breakfast than Australia’s prime minister’ as Albo walked to the stage to the tune of the song ‘I Need A Dollar’ by rapper/singer Aloe Blacc.

Want to make sure you don’t miss a single thing from the MCG today? We’ve got you covered…

12.15pm: Heats of the grand final sprint

1pm: Teams warm up on the field

1.23pm: Christine Anu performance

1.26pm: Grand final motorcade

1.33pm: Mike Brady performs Up There Cazaly

1.40pm: Katy Perry performance

2.11pm: Umpires come onto the ground, ball is delivered

2.13 pm: Sydney and Brisbane teams enter the field

2.24pm: Premiership cup arrives with Josh Kennedy

2.25pm: Welcome to Country by Uncle Colin Hunter Jr

2.26pm: National anthem performed by Cody Simpson

2.30pm: The grand final begins

3.35pm (approximately): Halftime, featuring the grand final sprint

5.10pm (approximately): The final siren sounds

The VFL/AFL has had tied grand finals in 1948, 1977 and 2010.

Here’s what the rules are if the Swans and Lions are locked up at full time this afternoon, straight from the AFL…

1. Goal umpires confirm scores are identical;
2. There is a six-minute break;
3. Teams change ends;
4. Three minutes of Additional Time shall be played, plus time-on;
5. At the end of the first Additional Time period, the siren will sound and teams will immediately change ends without a break;
6. The ball will be bounced (or thrown up) in the centre and a further three minutes of play (plus time-on) will commence;
7. At the conclusion of this period, the siren will sound and the team with the highest score is declared the winner;
8. If scores are still tied, steps three to eight are repeated until a result is determined.

No, not the big game – the Marsh AFL National Futures Boys match, which features Australia’s most talented under-17s footballers, with the two teams named after recently retired AFL stars Dyson Hepell and Rory Sloane.

The players will be eligible for the AFL draft next year, so it’s a great chance for fans to get a look at the young guns who could end up on their team’s list.

The Bloods have announced they’ve passed 75,000 members for the first time – a huge leap from last year’s mark of 65,332.

That comes on the back of more than 500,000 fans streaming through the gates at the SCG this season.

They’ve come a long way from where they were when they first started playing in Sydney in 1982, when only 15,764 supporters saw them win their first official home game in the harbour city.

Plenty of Aussies are hoping the Sorrento Moon singer will feel the wrath of the crowd when she joins headliner Katy Perry on the MCG later today.

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

Here’s another look at the wait the first fans to arrive were presented with this morning…

Here we see Lachie Neale and Dane Rampe putting the premiership trophy back on its stand after hoisting it for the fans at yesterday’s grand final parade.

A long-held superstition has it that the team whose representative takes his hand off the mug first will lose the game, so… sorry about that, Swans fans.

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

Here’s the moment the fans started to stream into the G just a few minutes ago. The AFL claims there’s so much demand for tickets, the ground could be sold out four times over.

The biggest day of the footy year is finally here and Daily Mail Australia has you covered with all the latest updates, scores and photos as the Sydney Swans take on the Brisbane Lions at the MCG.