How stupid are Hawthorn. A couple of weeks back, Mark Harvey went down to the old Woolstores, rounded up all the kids, put them in Fremantle jumpers and put them on a plane to Tasmania where the Dockers were scheduled to play the Hawks. So while Matty Pavlich and a dozen of his best mates sat back at the Seaview, smoking cigars  in their gem studded fur coats, betting on money knife fights and eating endangered marine creatures, Alastair Clarkson laid out his entire game plan to Mark Harvey while his side pumped up their egos by thrashing some skateboarders and deroes.

Deep down the Hawks must have known that the win didn’t really count for much but they arrived in Perth as if they were going to repeat their performance, sans a few points because Fremantle would be playing a ruckman. They were quickly set straight.

They ran onto the ground to the chilling echo of forty thousand Fremantle supporters chanting Freeeeee-oooooooo and suddenly realised they were a long way from home.

Fremantle are three games from immortality as they easily dispatched with the the side from Hawthorn that ever so courageously beat up the Fremantle junior side just two weeks ago. The Dockers had the yellow bastards covered from the opening bounce, hitting harder, running faster, kicking better and generally looking more handsome. There was barely a facet of the game they didn't smash the Hawks in. Hawthorn's Hollywood forward line could only manage 1 goal for the opening quarter against the no-no-nonsense and undermanned Freo defence, while the highly rated 2008 Premiership midfield were torn apart by David Mundy and a couple of kids. Fremantle now take the fight up to the 2009 Premiership side on Friday night where they will get their first look at the MCG for the season - and are expected to love it.

It's finals time, Mark Harvey is going to be nervous, it's his first time. We've all had 22 rounds to watch and learn the intricacies of the playing list so he's going to be relying on the supporters in the crowd to give him advice, yell things out to him and generally help him through a stressful time by telling him how to do his job. So make sure  you arrive at the game prepared and when you see Mark Harvey walking by, yell out your best ideas at the top of your voice to help him along.

If you’ve been reading the papers, listening to AM radio or even watching one of the nightly news bulletins, then you probably have no idea but Fremantle are playing Hawthorn in an Elimination Final this weekend (you will, however, be full bottle on all the contract negotiations that are not happening). The winner will be showered with platitudes while the loser will be booed from the ground, kicked back to Victoria and spend the summer looking for a replacement for Alastair Clarkson. After the Round 21 shenanigans, Hawthorn will go into the game in the full knowledge that they can beat Fremantle’s Colts team by upwards of 10 goals while Fremantle will go in knowing that the Hawks are so mentally fragile that they have to beat up a team of kids to make themselves feel like big men.