LIVE: Lions sweating on charge after ugly clash

Leon Cameron has explained the reasons down his refusal to beryllium progressive successful Essendon's coaching process, saying helium made the determination aft a 10-15 min chat with Bombers GM Josh Mahoney.

The erstwhile GWS Giants manager was unveiled arsenic the Sydney Swans' caller coaching manager for its academy connected Saturday.

"(The Swans academy job) allows america to stay successful Sydney with the household which was ever the plan," helium told SEN.

"When I got the accidental to enactment with the Swans it was a no-brainer successful the extremity – breathtaking times and looking guardant to it.

"I had a chat with Josh (Mahoney) connected Thursday oregon Friday. It was conscionable a bully 10-15 infinitesimal chat. We played with each different astatine the Bulldogs truthful we cognize each different rather well. We conscionable had a chat and I conscionable informed him I was going to enactment successful Sydney and thanked him for the accidental to talk.

"The timing's conscionable not right. I truly wanted to usage the adjacent 12 months to bespeak what happened successful the erstwhile 10 years arsenic a elder manager astatine the Giants and enactment connected the things I'm bully astatine and beardown astatine and bespeak successful the areas I privation to amended at."

Collingwood is presently the bookies' favourites up of tonight's semi last against Fremantle, presently paying $1.52 for a win, per SportsBet.

Fremantle is presently a $2.48 outsider, but arsenic we saw past night, erstwhile the $4.30 outsider Lions won, thing is imaginable successful September.

The commencement volition beryllium important tonight, and Justin Longmuir volition surely beryllium hoping his broadside doesn't statesman the lucifer successful a 41-point spread similar past weekend.

Collingwood trio Ash Johnson, Brody Mihocek and Jamie Elliott are adjacent favourites to footwear the archetypal major, with SportsBet presently paying $11 for them to footwear the archetypal goal.

The bookies are predicting Rory Lobb to footwear Fremantle's archetypal major, with the large antheral paying $11.50.

It's bully quality for those who wanted a cleanable crippled tonight! After immoderate aboriginal showers successful Melbourne, the skies person cleared up importantly successful the past fewer hours.

A look astatine tonight's forecast shows that it'll beryllium acold but dry, which is conscionable astir arsenic cleanable arsenic you'd privation the conditions to beryllium for the players.

A spot successful the prelim connected the line, what a lucifer this 1 is going to be! Two sides who simply bash not cognize however to quit. 

Bittersweet possibly doesn't adjacent travel adjacent to describing Jarrod Berry's nighttime retired past night.

The young weapon perfectly turned it connected successful the 2nd half, shutting down Clayton Oliver, arsenic the Lions shocked the reigning premiers astatine the MCG.

But an disfigured scrap successful the mediate of the crushed with Oliver could spot Berry perchance miss adjacent week's prelim against the Cats.

Berry and the Lions person downplayed the incidental successful the aftermath, but it remains to beryllium seen whether the AFL's lucifer reappraisal serviceman Michael Christian is arsenic forgiving.

Good day footy fans and invited to Wide World of Sports' unrecorded AFL sum up of a blockbuster semi-final clash betwixt Collingwood and Fremantle.

Tonight's clash volition instrumentality spot astatine the MCG successful beforehand of what's definite to beryllium different capableness crowd, and we volition beryllium connected manus to bring you each the latest updates and highlights.

Before then, there's plentifulness to dissect from past night's thriller betwixt Brisbane and Melbourne, and what looms arsenic a immense MRO verdict which volition driblet this afternoon.

Strap yourselves successful arsenic we bring you each the latest quality from astir the AFL.