.An intriguing "conspiracy idea" regarding Collingwood's late-game strategies has been floated observing its damaging loss to the Swans. Has the AFL caught onto the Magpies' save-the-game mindset and also coached its own umpires to be on the lookout for players seeking regular deductions? Court for yourself. It comes adhering to Collingwood's fourth-quarter capitulation against Sydney last Friday night-- Craig McRae's guys yielded a game-high 27-point top early in the last term to shed by 3 points at the SCG, as well as reverse their finals chances. View every activity until the 2024 AFL Grand Final cope with no ad-breaks during the course of play on Kayo. New to Kayo? Begin your free of cost trial today > Round 22WHAT'S GAMING REALLY PRICING YOU? Establish a down payment limit.Last time, in the 13 times the Magpies led at three-quarter-time, they happened to secure success. This year, nevertheless, Collingwood has actually gone 8-4 in games where it kept the advantage at the final change. "They closed out games (last year). This year ... they have not very had the capacity to acquire it performed," St Kilda fantastic Leigh Montagna said to Fox Footy's First Crack on Sunday night. The 287-gamer positioned his concept for why that might be. "Our company honored Collingwood in 2013 for its own ability to close activities down-- acquire replay halts, keep it in tight, put together how they wish to establish," he proceeded, pointing out instances from the Cakes' final-quarter collapse. "( Patrick) Lipinski in 2015 takes that reception, takes the take on, (they) reset, get another halt, and also they can acquire the activity on their conditions, as well as they can simply take a while off the clock. "( However) the ball squirts out and it resulted in the very first goal (for Sydney in the last quarter). "At that point only two mins later on, Steele Sidebottom-- he knows what he would like to do he intends to take the tackle, go to ground, get a ball-up-- yet maybe as a result of the brand-new holding-the-ball regulations, everyone's getting conscious. "All of a sudden, instead of maintaining it in it squirts out, Chad Warner catches it-- bang, yet another goal." Also 401-gamer Scott Pendlebury experienced the pressure behind time in the competition. "Once more, 3 mins later on, Pendlebury in the protective 50-- commonly he 'd simply take the handle, he would certainly lose his hips, obtain another interruption-- he worries a little bit, lets it spill over out, which was actually the (second-last) objective," Montagna revealed. "I merely thought Collingwood simply dropped a little bit of their capacity (to close the books close games) ... all those little bit of traits added up to all of them divulging a 27-point top." Dual premiership gamer David Master posed the idea to Montagna that maybe the AFL had captured onto Collingwood's late-game strategies, and that possibly the peacemakers were actually particularly looking out for the Cakes' trademark save-the-game attitude-- and the previous St performed board. "Perhaps, yeah-- it's a good conspiracy concept," he claimed. "Perhaps they (the AFL as well as its moderators) are onto it-- late in activities, we understand that Collingwood makes an effort and perform these factors, (maybe they are actually mentioning) 'let's know it'. "I assume that is actually fair, due to the fact that they've performed it for a couple of years currently." Collingwood is going to be specifically unclean concerning its own failure after finding fellow finals hopefuls Essendon, Carlton as well as the Western side Bulldogs find Sunday and also Sunday. The Magpies remain in 11th position on the ladder and need to have a wonder to get the finals from here-- finalizing matches along with Brisbane as well as Melbourne wait for.