I did bet because of the umpires and I'm more than a few hundred better off for it in the last couple of weeks. (NB: Bet responsibly, I generally only have a handful of bets a year).
That is, I put money on Norths vs Adelaide based on the appointed umpires and my research of the correlation of umpires to the results of games.
I then put my entire betting account on Hawthorn as soon as I heard Dalgleish, Rosebury and Stevic were the appointed umpires. Even though I believed Freo would win if they were going to receive fair and reasonable umpiring.
I believe, the game went pretty much how I predicted. I could easily rattle off several areas where I think Hawks are better than Freo, but in my opinion, the umpiring was the biggest difference between the two teams, followed by skills (goal kicking and turnovers), followed by an unfit Fyfe, followed by team squad depth, then other things. Coaching was never really one of my concerns and I saw nothing in that game to make me rethink that.