AFL fans are spitting chips over airline price increases ahead of the preliminary final between Sydney and Collingwood, with some one-way flights costing close to $1000.

Melbourne barber Tony Dragonetti has been a die-hard Magpies fan from the week he arrived in Australia from Italy in December 1965 as a six-year-old. His aunty handed him a Collingwood jersey and a Sherrin that Christmas, and he has never looked back.