.A thought-provoking "conspiracy concept" about Collingwood's late-game methods has been actually floated following its own disastrous defeat to the Swans. Has the AFL got onto the Magpies' save-the-game perspective and taught its peacemakers to be on the lookout for gamers seeking regular blockages? Judge on your own. It comes following Collingwood's fourth-quarter capitulation versus Sydney last Friday night-- Craig McRae's guys surrendered a game-high 27-point top early in the last phrase to drop by three aspects at the SCG, along with reverse their finals possibilities. View every game until the 2024 AFL Grand Final deal with no ad-breaks during play on Kayo. New to Kayo? Beginning your cost-free difficulty today > Cycle 22WHAT'S WAGERING REALLY PRICED AT YOU? Prepare a deposit limit.Last period, in the 13 opportunities the Magpies led at three-quarter-time, they went on to get triumph. This year, however, Collingwood has actually gone 8-4 in video games where it held the perk at the ultimate change. "They closed the books activities (last year). This year ... they haven't rather had the capacity to acquire it performed," St Kilda excellent Leigh Montagna told Fox Footy's First Gap on Sunday night. The 287-gamer postured his concept for why that could be. "Our experts admired Collingwood in 2013 for its own ability to shut activities down-- receive replay blockages, keep it in strict, set up how they would like to establish," he continued, presenting instances from the Cakes' final-quarter collapse. "( Patrick) Lipinski in 2015 takes that ball, takes the address, (they) reset, obtain another interruption, as well as they can get the activity on their phrases, and also they can easily simply take some time off the time clock. "( Yet) the ball squirts out and also it triggered the initial goal (for Sydney in the final quarter). "After that only two mins later, Steele Sidebottom-- he recognizes what he would like to perform he wishes to take the handle, most likely to ground, acquire a ball-up-- however perhaps because of the new holding-the-ball regulations, every person's obtaining conscious. "Suddenly, rather than maintaining it in it sprays out, Chad Warner catches it-- bang, another target." Also 401-gamer Scott Pendlebury thought the tension behind time in the contest. "Once again, three minutes later on, Pendlebury in the protective fifty-- usually he 'd just take the deal with, he will fall his hips, get an additional deduction-- he runs scared a little, allows it splash out, and that was the (second-last) target," Montagna detailed. "I just thought Collingwood just lost a little bit of their capability (to close out close games) ... all those little factors amounted to all of them paying a 27-point top." Double premiership gamer David Master positioned the theory to Montagna that probably the AFL had recorded onto Collingwood's late-game approaches, which perhaps the umpires were primarily watching out for the Pies' trademark save-the-game perspective-- and the former St. performed board. "Maybe, yeah-- it is actually an excellent conspiracy idea," he mentioned. "Perhaps they (the AFL and also its own peacemakers) are onto it-- overdue in games, we know that Collingwood attempts and also perform these factors, (maybe they are actually pointing out) 'allow's understand it'. "I presume that's fair, due to the fact that they have actually done it for a number of years currently." Collingwood will definitely be actually particularly filthy about its failure after finding fellow finals hopefuls Essendon, Carlton and the Western Bulldogs locate Saturday and also Sunday. The Magpies stay in 11th position on the ladder and also require a miracle to apply for the finals away-- finalizing competitions along with Brisbane and also Melbourne await.