AFL Tips: See who the Herald Sun experts are picking for Melbourne v Hawthorn and Collingwood v GWS

HAWTHORN may have finished the season in the top four but their finals campaign will end in a straight sets exit, according to the Herald Sun experts. Are the Dees about to enjoy another massive win? See who everyone is tipping.

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September 13, 2018 - 5:08PM

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Meanwhile, the Tigers are all the rage, with almost all tipsters picking the Hawks to go out in straight sets.

Catch all the tips for semi-final weekend below.

Chris Cavanagh's top tips: Score so far: 146

Demons

Pies

Last Week: 2

Margins: Melbourne 6Collingwood 6

Momentum is a powerful thing and the Demons have plenty of it right now and will get past the Hawks, who were poor against Richmond last week. Giants are dangerous, but expecting Collingwood to be too good at the MCG.

Sarah Jones's top tips: Score so far: 145

Demons

Pies

Last Week: 3

Margins: Melbourne 8Collingwood 6

Jon Ralph's top tips: Score so far: 143

Demons

Pies

Last Week: 2

It’s some kind of challenge for the Pies to fly back to Melbourne and knock over a team that has played in the last two prelims but they have thrived under adversity all year. Melbourne can go all the way.

Dermott Brereton's top tips: Score so far: 142

Hawks

GWS

Last Week: 2

Margins: Hawthorn 9GWS Giants 21

Matthew Lloyd's top tips: Score so far: 142

Demons

Pies

Last Week: 3

Margins: Melbourne 30Collingwood 15

Gerard Whateley's top tips: Score so far: 142

Demons

Pies

Last Week: 2

Margins: Melbourne 10Collingwood 3

Patrick Dangerfield's top tips: Score so far: 140

Demons

GWS

Last Week: 2

Melbourne GWS Giants

Lauren Wood's top tips: Score so far: 140

Demons

Pies

Last Week: 3

Margins: Melbourne 17Collingwood 9

Fast, frenetic and with fire-hot pressure. That’s what it takes to win finals and the Demons have got it in spades. The Magpies will be right at home back on the MCG.

Mick Malthouse's top tips: Score so far: 139

Demons

Pies

Last Week: 4

Margins: Melbourne 15Collingwood 15

Mark Robinson's top tips: Score so far: 139

Demons

Pies

Last Week: 4

Margins: Melbourne 25Collingwood 18

Jay Clark's top tips: Score so far: 138

Demons

Pies

Last Week: 2

Margins: Melbourne 10Collingwood 30

Gil Gardiner's top tips: Score so far: 138

Demons

GWS

Last Week: 3

Margins: Melbourne 20GWS Giants 20

Scott Gullan's top tips: Score so far: 137

Demons

Pies

Last Week: 2

Better late than never they say and I’m well and truly on the Melbourne bandwagon now. Stratton out for Hawks is a huge blow.

David King's top tips: Score so far: 137

Demons

Pies

Last Week: 3

Margins: Melbourne 30Collingwood 12

Daniel Andrews's top tips: Score so far: 136

Demons

GWS

Last Week: 4

Margins: Melbourne 12GWS Giants 9

Nathan Brown's top tips: Score so far: 136

Demons

GWS

Last Week: 3

Margins: Melbourne 8GWS Giants 11

Tim Watson's top tips: Score so far: 136

Demons

Pies

Last Week: 1

Margins: Melbourne 15Collingwood 9

Mick Warner's top tips: Score so far: 135

Demons

GWS

Last Week: 4

Margins: Melbourne 34GWS Giants 19

The Giants will have too much class and the Dees are on a mission.

Sam Landsberger's top tips: Score so far: 134

Demons

Pies

Last Week: 3

Margins: Melbourne 15Collingwood 2

The Jack Fitzpatrick Cup is heading to Gosch’s Paddock, while Adam Treloar will heap more September pain on his old side ... before turning his attention to the team he rejected — Richmond.

Glenn Mcfarlane's top tips: Score so far: 134

Demons

Pies

Last Week: 3

Margins: Melbourne 18Collingwood 7

Lookout, we look like having a Richmond-Collingwood final - for the first time in 38 years.

Shane Warne's top tips: Score so far: 134

Demons

Pies

Last Week: 3

Margins: Melbourne 14Collingwood 8

James Hird's top tips: Score so far: 133

Demons

Pies

Last Week: 4

Margins: Melbourne 11Collingwood 9

Eliza Sewell's top tips: Score so far: 133

Demons

Pies

Last Week: 2

Margins: Brayden Maynard will use his own Kung Fu tactics to quell Toby Greene as the Magpies set up a mouth-watering clash with Richmond.

Melbourne 14Collingwood 10

Jon Anderson's top tips: Score so far: 132

Demons

Pies

Last Week: 2

Margins: Melbourne 8Collingwood 16

I have great respect for Hawthorn on the rebound but just feel there may well be something special about this Melbourne group

Bianca Chatfield's top tips: Score so far: 131

Demons

Pies

Last Week: 2

Margins: Melbourne 11Collingwood 9

Sam Edmund's top tips: Score so far: 131

Demons

Pies

Last Week: 2

Margins: Melbourne 28Collingwood 6

Call me a sucker, but I’m caught up in the fairytale that is Melbourne. Dogs, Tigers and now Dees? Like the former two, you have to admire their energy and pressure.