Yes indeed, good luck in your Final Mr Coote, I hope the ball runs kindly for you but I for one will not be deflected from offering my opinions on a match official's performance and appointment because they happen to be a personal friend of someone.
If there has been comment that Coote is biased in favour of one of the teams in the Final then that is disgraceful and should rightly be called out.
If Coote has an excellent game tomorrow then I will gladly say so; if I think he has a stinker then then I won't hesitate to say so even if that causes his friends to call me a "basher"