.An intriguing "conspiracy idea" regarding Collingwood's late-game techniques has been actually floated following its own terrible loss to the Swans. Has the AFL caught onto the Magpies' save-the-game attitude and coached its peacemakers to be looking for players looking for replay discontinuances? Court on your own. It happens adhering to Collingwood's fourth-quarter capitulation versus Sydney final Friday evening-- Craig McRae's men yielded a game-high 27-point lead early in the final phrase to drop through 3 points at the SCG, and also undo their finals possibilities. See every activity till the 2024 AFL Grand Final cope with no ad-breaks during the course of play on Kayo. New to Kayo? Start your complimentary ordeal today > Round 22WHAT'S GAMBLING REALLY PRICED AT YOU? Specify a deposit limit.Last season, in the thirteen times the Magpies led at three-quarter-time, they took place to protect victory. This year, nevertheless, Collingwood has gone 8-4 in games where it kept the conveniences at the final change. "They closed the books games (in 2014). This year ... they have not rather had the capacity to get it performed," Street Kilda terrific Leigh Montagna informed Fox Footy's First Split on Sunday night. The 287-gamer presented his theory for why that may be. "Our experts lauded Collingwood in 2015 for its ability to close activities down-- obtain replay stoppages, maintain it in limited, put together exactly how they want to put together," he proceeded, presenting examples coming from the Cakes' final-quarter failure. "( Patrick) Lipinski in 2014 takes that ball, takes the take on, (they) reset, obtain another stop, as well as they may get the video game on their conditions, as well as they can just take time off the time clock. "( Yet) the reception squirts out and it triggered the first goal (for Sydney in the last fourth). "Then just two moments eventually, Steele Sidebottom-- he knows what he wants to perform he wants to take the deal with, go to ground, get a ball-up-- however maybe as a result of the brand-new holding-the-ball guidelines, everybody's receiving mindful. "All of a sudden, as opposed to maintaining it in it squirts out, Chad Warner catches it-- value, an additional objective." Even 401-gamer Scott Pendlebury felt the tension late in the competition. "Once again, three moments later on, Pendlebury in the defensive 50-- generally he would certainly only take the address, he will lose his hips, get an additional stoppage-- he panics a little bit, lets it spill over out, which was the (second-last) goal," Montagna discussed. "I simply thought Collingwood only dropped a bit of their potential (to liquidate close activities) ... all those little traits added up to them coughing up a 27-point lead." Double premiership player David Master positioned the theory to Montagna that maybe the AFL had actually captured onto Collingwood's late-game approaches, which maybe the umpires were exclusively watching out for the Cakes' trademark save-the-game attitude-- and the past Saint was on panel. "Maybe, yeah-- it's a great conspiracy theory," he mentioned. "Perhaps they (the AFL and its umpires) are actually onto it-- overdue in games, we understand that Collingwood tries and also perform these things, (maybe they are actually saying) 'let's know it'. "I assume that is actually reasonable, given that they've done it for a number of years right now." Collingwood will be actually particularly filthy about its failure after viewing fellow finals hopefuls Essendon, Carlton and also the Western side Bulldogs stumble on Sunday and also Sunday. The Magpies stay in 11th position on the ladder as well as need a wonder to obtain the finals away-- shutting matchups along with Brisbane as well as Melbourne await.