I am a little bewildered as to whether the umpires were actually cheating or just incredibly incompetent - examples, Mcpharlins's mark given to Tommahawk who goaled, DeBoer being penalised for leaping completely over the Geelong player and putting a foot in his back along the way 30m from the Freo goal dead in front, Pavlich being held by the neck of the jumper while running to a marking contest and being penalised for doing so, and a lot of others along the way. There were probably 8 or 9 decisions that appeared designed to keep the cats in the game i.e . decisions that either gave the cats a goal or robbed Freo of an opportunity, that one has to wonder whether the conspiracy has already began to try and keep Freo out of the GF this year. We won, and won well, but with decent umpiring it would have been over by half time.