.An intriguing "conspiracy idea" concerning Collingwood's late-game methods has been drifted following its own terrible defeat to the Swans. Has the AFL saw onto the Magpies' save-the-game attitude and advised its moderators to become on the lookout for players finding loyal deductions? Court on your own. It happens complying with Collingwood's fourth-quarter capitulation against Sydney final Friday evening-- Craig McRae's guys surrendered a game-high 27-point top early in the final phrase to drop through three points at the SCG, and also undo their finals chances. See every game till the 2024 AFL Grand Final cope with no ad-breaks throughout play on Kayo. New to Kayo? Begin your free difficulty today > Round 22WHAT'S BETTING REALLY PRICED AT YOU? Specify a down payment limit.Last time, in the thirteen times the Magpies led at three-quarter-time, they took place to protect success. This year, nonetheless, Collingwood has gone 8-4 in video games where it kept the advantage at the final change. "They closed out video games (in 2014). This year ... they haven't rather had the capacity to obtain it performed," St Kilda excellent Leigh Montagna informed Fox Footy's First Gap on Sunday evening. The 287-gamer postured his concept for why that might be. "We honored Collingwood last year for its own capacity to shut activities down-- get loyal interruptions, keep it in tight, set up exactly how they desire to establish," he continued, pointing out instances from the Pies' final-quarter crash. "( Patrick) Lipinski last year takes that ball, takes the deal with, (they) reset, receive an additional deduction, and also they can get the video game on their conditions, as well as they can simply require time off the clock. "( But) the ball sprays out and it led to the 1st goal (for Sydney in the final quarter). "After that merely pair of moments later, Steele Sidebottom-- he understands what he wants to perform he wants to take the deal with, visit ground, obtain a ball-up-- however possibly as a result of the new holding-the-ball rules, every person's acquiring conscious. "All of a sudden, as opposed to keeping it in it sprays out, Chad Detector pounces on it-- bang, one more target." Even 401-gamer Scott Pendlebury felt the tension late in the competition. "Once more, 3 mins later, Pendlebury in the protective fifty-- generally he will merely take the handle, he will lose his hips, acquire another standstill-- he runs scared a little, permits it splash out, which was the (second-last) goal," Montagna revealed. "I only assumed Collingwood merely dropped a little bit of their capability (to close the books close activities) ... all those little bit of traits amounted to all of them paying a 27-point lead." Twin premiership gamer David Master posed the concept to Montagna that probably the AFL had captured onto Collingwood's late-game approaches, and that possibly the peacemakers were particularly looking out for the Pies' trademark save-the-game perspective-- and the previous St was on panel. "Perhaps, yeah-- it is actually a good conspiracy idea," he mentioned. "Possibly they (the AFL as well as its own peacemakers) are onto it-- overdue in activities, we understand that Collingwood attempts and carry out these things, (perhaps they're claiming) 'let's recognize it'. "I assume that's decent, due to the fact that they've done it for a number of years now." Collingwood will be actually particularly unclean about its collapse after finding fellow finals hopefuls Essendon, Carlton and the Western Bulldogs discover Saturday and Sunday. The Magpies continue to be in 11th posture on the ladder and require a magic to obtain the finals hence-- finalizing matchups with Brisbane as well as Melbourne await.