.An intriguing "conspiracy idea" about Collingwood's late-game approaches has been floated following its own disastrous loss to the Swans. Possesses the AFL found onto the Magpies' save-the-game mindset and taught its own umpires to be looking for gamers looking for regular discontinuances? Court on your own. It comes complying with Collingwood's fourth-quarter capitulation versus Sydney last Friday evening-- Craig McRae's guys surrendered a game-high 27-point top early in the final condition to shed by 3 aspects at the SCG, in addition to reverse their finals chances. Watch every activity until the 2024 AFL Grand Final LIVE with no ad-breaks during use Kayo. New to Kayo? Begin your complimentary hardship today > Round 22WHAT'S WAGERING REALLY PRICED AT YOU? Establish a down payment limit.Last season, in the thirteen times the Magpies led at three-quarter-time, they went on to safeguard victory. This year, nevertheless, Collingwood has gone 8-4 in activities where it stored the conveniences at the ultimate change. "They terminated the account games (last year). This year ... they haven't quite had the capacity to receive it performed," Street Kilda great Leigh Montagna told Fox Footy's First Crack on Sunday night. The 287-gamer posed his idea for why that could be. "Our company admired Collingwood last year for its potential to close activities down-- obtain replay standstills, keep it in limited, established just how they want to set up," he continued, pointing out examples coming from the Pies' final-quarter crash. "( Patrick) Lipinski in 2014 takes that ball, takes the tackle, (they) reset, receive another deduction, and also they may get the activity on their phrases, and they may only take some time off the time clock. "( Yet) the reception squirts out as well as it brought about the very first goal (for Sydney in the final one-fourth). "At that point only pair of mins later, Steele Sidebottom-- he understands what he intends to do he desires to take the address, most likely to ground, get a ball-up-- yet perhaps because of the new holding-the-ball rules, every person's getting aware. "All of a sudden, as opposed to maintaining it in it squirts out, Chad Detector catches it-- bang, an additional target." Also 401-gamer Scott Pendlebury believed the tension behind time in the competition. "Again, three mins later, Pendlebury in the protective fifty-- generally he will merely take the handle, he will lose his hips, acquire yet another deduction-- he overreacts a bit, lets it spill over out, and also was the (second-last) target," Montagna clarified. "I just believed Collingwood simply lost a little bit of their ability (to terminate the account close video games) ... all those little traits amounted to them spending a 27-point lead." Twin premiership gamer David King posed the idea to Montagna that probably the AFL had actually captured onto Collingwood's late-game tactics, which maybe the moderators were actually particularly watching out for the Cakes' hallmark save-the-game frame of mind-- and the previous Saint got on board. "Perhaps, yeah-- it is actually a great conspiracy concept," he said. "Possibly they (the AFL as well as its own umpires) are actually onto it-- late in games, we understand that Collingwood attempts and do these factors, (perhaps they're pointing out) 'allow's understand it'. "I believe that's reasonable, given that they have actually performed it for a couple of years right now." Collingwood will certainly be actually specifically unclean about its collapse after seeing fellow finals hopefuls Essendon, Carlton as well as the Western Bulldogs discover Saturday as well as Sunday. The Magpies stay in 11th position on the step ladder and need to have a miracle to obtain the finals from here-- finalizing matches with Brisbane and Melbourne await.