Last year I tried hard to show the umpiring bias against Fremantle. I often did this even when Freo were winning games. Although I have continued to see some very biased umpiring against Freo in 2016, it's much more difficult getting a sympathetic ear when we are losing.
Not taking anything away from Hawthorn, because they have been the best team in the competition for the past few years, but had Fremantle received more favourable umpiring (& MRP decisions), I truly believe a premiership could have been obtained. For some time now, leading up to games, I'm confronted with the question, are Freo good enough to beat the opposition and the umpires. I wish Freo management could do something about it, but without media support (and unfortunately, the media believes it's popular to bag Freo), I'm not sure that it's got any chance of changing in the near future.