Carlton's fairytale finals run continues at the MCG

0:00MUSIC Good afternoon. First at four, the crowd is starting to build outside of the MCG, ahead of tonight's blockbuster elimination final between Jolong and Koulton. Live now to Zanda McGuire, who's at the ground. Zanda Blues fans are hoping that fairytale run continues. On what a fairytale run it has been from 10th place on the ladder through the wildcard round and here to the elimination final. Friday night football against the cats. They were one and eight under Michael Voss earlier this season and the Josh Fraser fairytale. The Fraser Train has just gone absolutely ballistic and taken them to this point. The crowd is unbelievable. We hear this time last week for the Collingwood and Bulldogs game on the Friday night. Let me tell you, there's probably only about 300 people inside this area at the time. There is at least 500, 600. It's fenced off and have a look at this behind it. I reckon there's probably about 1,000, maybe 2,000 people that are starting to kill up here and that are just streaming down from Jolong on station.

1:05A huge snake for fencing here and a bunch of fans that have been here for at least 30 minutes. Come on guys, give us a little bit of cheer and give me a little bit of something. No, come on. Now we wouldn't expect that at the MCC. It's a little bit stiff out here. Laura, we're going to try and get inside here. Georgiana, can you just let us in here? We're right in. It's like Fort Knox, the amount of security. They've dialed it right up 96,000 people expected here at the MCG tonight. We'll cut a couple of blue bags here guys. How excited are they for this final? Very nervous to eat. Sorry, eat. It's tender. It won't be the first one. It won't be the last one. It looked like you're a man. Yeah, very nervous. I think a big deal. Get up with your good start. The stage drawing. We hold their midfield, hold their tall forwards. I think like last time we'll give it a go. I think we'll win. If I had to set it the start of the year, or at least when you were one and out on a Michael Voss who'd be playing in the final, what would you think? I would have said that you couldn't believe it. Couldn't believe that it had happened, Zander. We're going to have a great night tonight, I think. I suppose. I reckon it. I reckon it's leaders and Dean, hold Cameron. We'll do all right.

2:08And the boys bring extreme pressure in the center. A lot of optimism amongst the Blues fans and fair enough because there was a massive upset over in Perth last night. The Hawks getting over the line against the dockers who hadn't lost at Optus Stadium all year. 12 and over. They were to the Hawthorne when over and run rampant by 32 points. An extraordinary win for their season. They'll now host a home preliminary final here at the MCG in a fortnight. Nick Watson, extraordinary two goals, two and 18 disposals. But that stat line doesn't even begin to tell the story of his influence over their Laura. It starts to the official week one of finals after Wildcard Round. 96,000 by the looks of this, they might even get a little bit more. It is extraordinary here at the J and we'll be back in sport. Absolutely. And now let's see what happens with the cats too. They know they've got finals experience. Let's see Zander.