.A provocative "conspiracy idea" concerning Collingwood's late-game approaches has been drifted following its devastating defeat to the Swans. Possesses the AFL found onto the Magpies' save-the-game mindset and taught its own moderators to become looking for gamers looking for loyal interruptions? Court on your own. It comes observing Collingwood's fourth-quarter capitulation versus Sydney final Friday night-- Craig McRae's guys yielded a game-high 27-point top early in the ultimate condition to lose through 3 points at the SCG, along with undo their finals odds. Enjoy every activity up until the 2024 AFL Grand Final cope with no ad-breaks during the course of use Kayo. New to Kayo? Begin your free difficulty today > Round 22WHAT'S WAGERING REALLY PRICING YOU? Prepare a down payment limit.Last period, in the thirteen opportunities the Magpies led at three-quarter-time, they happened to safeguard victory. This year, nevertheless, Collingwood has gone 8-4 in games where it held the perk at the ultimate change. "They closed out activities (in 2014). This year ... they haven't fairly had the ability to obtain it carried out," St Kilda great Leigh Montagna said to Fox Footy's First Crack on Sunday evening. The 287-gamer positioned his theory for why that could be. "Our company admired Collingwood in 2013 for its own potential to close video games down-- acquire repeat stops, keep it in tight, put together how they desire to put together," he carried on, pointing out instances coming from the Pies' final-quarter failure. "( Patrick) Lipinski in 2013 takes that ball, takes the tackle, (they) reset, acquire another deduction, and also they can easily receive the activity on their conditions, and they can simply require time off the time clock. "( Yet) the reception squirts out and also it led to the initial objective (for Sydney in the final one-fourth). "After that only pair of minutes eventually, Steele Sidebottom-- he knows what he wants to do he desires to take the tackle, visit ground, obtain a ball-up-- yet possibly due to the brand-new holding-the-ball guidelines, everybody's obtaining aware. "All of a sudden, as opposed to keeping it in it sprays out, Chad Detector pounces on it-- bang, one more goal." Even 401-gamer Scott Pendlebury felt the pressure late in the competition. "Once again, 3 moments eventually, Pendlebury in the protective 50-- usually he will only take the handle, he will fall his hips, receive one more blockage-- he panics a bit, allows it spill over out, which was the (second-last) objective," Montagna discussed. "I only thought Collingwood just dropped a little bit of their potential (to liquidate close activities) ... all those little things amounted to them paying a 27-point lead." Dual premiership gamer David Master posed the theory to Montagna that maybe the AFL had captured onto Collingwood's late-game methods, and that maybe the moderators were actually exclusively looking out for the Cakes' trademark save-the-game perspective-- and also the past St. got on board. "Maybe, yeah-- it is actually an excellent conspiracy theory," he pointed out. "Perhaps they (the AFL as well as its own umpires) are onto it-- late in activities, we understand that Collingwood makes an effort and do these points, (possibly they are actually stating) 'allow's be aware of it'. "I believe that is actually reasonable, since they have actually performed it for a number of years now." Collingwood will definitely be especially gross about its collapse after seeing fellow finals hopefuls Essendon, Carlton and also the Western side Bulldogs locate Saturday and also Sunday. The Magpies remain in 11th position on the step ladder and need to have a magic to receive the finals from here-- finalizing matches with Brisbane as well as Melbourne wait for.