.A provocative "conspiracy idea" concerning Collingwood's late-game methods has been drifted observing its terrible defeat to the Swans. Possesses the AFL caught onto the Magpies' save-the-game attitude and also coached its moderators to become in search of players looking for loyal discontinuances? Court for yourself. It comes observing Collingwood's fourth-quarter capitulation versus Sydney final Friday evening-- Craig McRae's males yielded a game-high 27-point lead early in the ultimate term to shed by 3 aspects at the SCG, in addition to reverse their finals opportunities. Check out every video game until the 2024 AFL Grand Final cope with no ad-breaks during use Kayo. New to Kayo? Start your free of cost trial today > Cycle 22WHAT'S GAMING REALLY COSTING YOU? Specify a down payment limit.Last period, in the thirteen opportunities the Magpies led at three-quarter-time, they happened to safeguard triumph. This year, however, Collingwood has gone 8-4 in games where it stored the benefit at the last modification. "They terminated the account video games (in 2014). This year ... they have not rather been able to acquire it performed," St Kilda great Leigh Montagna said to Fox Footy's First Gap on Sunday evening. The 287-gamer presented his idea for why that might be. "Our experts lauded Collingwood last year for its own potential to shut games down-- acquire loyal blockages, maintain it in tight, established how they want to set up," he proceeded, citing instances coming from the Pies' final-quarter crash. "( Patrick) Lipinski in 2014 takes that reception, takes the handle, (they) reset, get another blockage, and also they may acquire the activity on their terms, as well as they can simply take time off the clock. "( But) the reception squirts out as well as it brought about the initial goal (for Sydney in the last one-fourth). "After that only 2 minutes later on, Steele Sidebottom-- he understands what he intends to carry out he would like to take the tackle, go to ground, acquire a ball-up-- however maybe due to the brand-new holding-the-ball policies, everybody's acquiring aware. "Suddenly, rather than keeping it in it sprays out, Chad Detector catches it-- value, an additional objective." Also 401-gamer Scott Pendlebury experienced the pressure late in the contest. "Again, three minutes later on, Pendlebury in the protective fifty-- usually he would certainly simply take the tackle, he would certainly lose his hips, obtain one more interruption-- he freaks out a small amount, lets it spill out, and that was actually the (second-last) target," Montagna discussed. "I just assumed Collingwood merely dropped a little bit of their ability (to close the books close games) ... all those little bit of traits added up to all of them coughing up a 27-point lead." Twin premiership player David King posed the concept to Montagna that probably the AFL had actually recorded onto Collingwood's late-game strategies, and also possibly the umpires were exclusively watching out for the Cakes' trademark save-the-game mentality-- and the past St. got on panel. "Possibly, yeah-- it is actually a great conspiracy concept," he pointed out. "Possibly they (the AFL and its own peacemakers) are actually onto it-- late in video games, we know that Collingwood attempts and also do these factors, (maybe they are actually saying) 'allow's know it'. "I think that's decent, since they have actually performed it for a couple of years now." Collingwood will be particularly filthy about its crash after seeing fellow finals hopefuls Essendon, Carlton and also the Western side Bulldogs find Sunday as well as Sunday. The Magpies remain in 11th posture on the step ladder and also need a miracle to get the finals from here-- closing matches along with Brisbane as well as Melbourne await.