.A provocative "conspiracy idea" about Collingwood's late-game techniques has been floated following its damaging loss to the Swans. Has the AFL found onto the Magpies' save-the-game perspective as well as instructed its own peacemakers to be in search of gamers finding regular standstills? Judge for yourself. It comes adhering to Collingwood's fourth-quarter capitulation versus Sydney final Friday evening-- Craig McRae's guys yielded a game-high 27-point lead early in the ultimate condition to drop by 3 factors at the SCG, along with undo their finals odds. View every game until the 2024 AFL Grand Final deal with no ad-breaks throughout use Kayo. New to Kayo? Begin your free hardship today > Round 22WHAT'S GAMING REALLY PRICING YOU? Set a down payment limit.Last period, in the thirteen opportunities the Magpies led at three-quarter-time, they happened to secure victory. This year, however, Collingwood has actually gone 8-4 in games where it held the benefit at the ultimate modification. "They terminated the account video games (in 2014). This year ... they haven't pretty had the ability to receive it done," St Kilda great Leigh Montagna informed Fox Footy's First Split on Sunday evening. The 287-gamer postured his concept for why that could be. "Our company honored Collingwood in 2013 for its potential to close games down-- obtain replay interruptions, maintain it in limited, established exactly how they intend to set up," he continued, presenting instances from the Cakes' final-quarter failure. "( Patrick) Lipinski last year takes that ball, takes the tackle, (they) reset, get one more standstill, and they can obtain the game on their phrases, as well as they can just take time off the clock. "( But) the ball squirts out and also it brought about the very first objective (for Sydney in the last fourth). "Then simply two minutes later on, Steele Sidebottom-- he knows what he desires to perform he wants to take the address, most likely to ground, get a ball-up-- but perhaps due to the new holding-the-ball regulations, everybody's obtaining aware. "Suddenly, instead of keeping it in it sprays out, Chad Detector pounces on it-- value, yet another target." Also 401-gamer Scott Pendlebury thought the tension behind time in the contest. "Once more, 3 moments eventually, Pendlebury in the protective fifty-- usually he would certainly merely take the tackle, he would certainly drop his hips, acquire an additional standstill-- he runs scared a little, allows it spill over out, and that was the (second-last) target," Montagna explained. "I only thought Collingwood merely dropped a little bit of their capacity (to liquidate close games) ... all those little things amounted to them spending a 27-point top." Twin premiership gamer David King posed the idea to Montagna that perhaps the AFL had actually caught onto Collingwood's late-game strategies, which possibly the umpires were actually exclusively watching out for the Cakes' trademark save-the-game way of thinking-- as well as the previous St. got on panel. "Perhaps, yeah-- it's a really good conspiracy theory," he pointed out. "Maybe they (the AFL as well as its own moderators) are actually onto it-- late in video games, we understand that Collingwood tries and also perform these points, (maybe they are actually claiming) 'let's recognize it'. "I think that's reasonable, since they've performed it for a number of years currently." Collingwood will definitely be actually particularly unclean regarding its crash after finding fellow finals hopefuls Essendon, Carlton as well as the Western side Bulldogs find Saturday and also Sunday. The Magpies remain in 11th setting on the step ladder as well as need a magic to qualify for the finals from here-- finalizing competitions along with Brisbane as well as Melbourne await.