First Elimination Final live: West Coast v Essendon

Hello and welcome to our rolling coverage of the First Elimination Final between West Coast and Essendon from Optus Stadium!

Yes! The wait is over! The finals are here and with that annyoing end-of-season bye out of the way, we can finally sink our teeth into the September action.

It's probably the game least likely to produce an upset result this weekend with West Coast the warmest of the four favourites, but anything can happen in sudden-death footy, and the Bombers won't die wondering as they try and break their 15-year finals victory drought.