.A thought-provoking "conspiracy theory" about Collingwood's late-game strategies has been drifted following its dreadful loss to the Swans. Has the AFL found onto the Magpies' save-the-game way of thinking as well as taught its own umpires to be on the lookout for gamers finding regular interruptions? Court on your own. It comes observing Collingwood's fourth-quarter capitulation versus Sydney final Friday evening-- Craig McRae's men caved in a game-high 27-point top early in the last condition to drop through three factors at the SCG, along with undo their finals chances. Check out every game until the 2024 AFL Grand Final cope with no ad-breaks during play on Kayo. New to Kayo? Start your free of cost trial today > Round 22WHAT'S GAMBLING REALLY PRICING YOU? Specify a deposit limit.Last time, in the 13 times the Magpies led at three-quarter-time, they took place to safeguard success. This year, having said that, Collingwood has actually gone 8-4 in video games where it held the conveniences at the ultimate modification. "They liquidated activities (in 2014). This year ... they haven't quite managed to acquire it carried out," Street Kilda great Leigh Montagna said to Fox Footy's First Gap on Sunday night. The 287-gamer posed his idea for why that might be. "Our experts admired Collingwood in 2014 for its capability to shut activities down-- receive regular halts, keep it in strict, put together exactly how they desire to establish," he continued, pointing out instances from the Pies' final-quarter failure. "( Patrick) Lipinski in 2013 takes that reception, takes the tackle, (they) reset, get yet another stoppage, and also they can receive the game on their conditions, and they can easily simply take time off the clock. "( However) the ball sprays out as well as it led to the first target (for Sydney in the last fourth). "At that point just two mins later on, Steele Sidebottom-- he knows what he wants to carry out he desires to take the deal with, most likely to ground, get a ball-up-- but possibly due to the brand new holding-the-ball policies, everybody's getting aware. "All of a sudden, rather than keeping it in it squirts out, Chad Detector catches it-- bang, one more objective." Even 401-gamer Scott Pendlebury thought the stress late in the contest. "Once more, 3 mins later, Pendlebury in the defensive 50-- typically he 'd merely take the address, he would certainly fall his hips, get another discontinuance-- he runs scared a bit, lets it splash out, and that was the (second-last) goal," Montagna clarified. "I only assumed Collingwood simply dropped a little bit of their ability (to liquidate close video games) ... all those little bit of points amounted to all of them divulging a 27-point top." Dual premiership player David King positioned the idea to Montagna that probably the AFL had captured onto Collingwood's late-game approaches, which perhaps the umpires were actually especially keeping an eye out for the Cakes' trademark save-the-game mentality-- as well as the past St got on panel. "Perhaps, yeah-- it's an excellent conspiracy idea," he pointed out. "Perhaps they (the AFL and its umpires) are onto it-- late in games, we understand that Collingwood tries as well as carry out these things, (maybe they're claiming) 'permit's recognize it'. "I think that's decent, due to the fact that they have actually done it for a couple of years now." Collingwood will certainly be actually particularly dirty concerning its own crash after finding fellow finals hopefuls Essendon, Carlton and also the Western Bulldogs discover Sunday and Sunday. The Magpies continue to be in 11th posture on the ladder and also require a miracle to obtain the finals from here-- shutting matchups along with Brisbane as well as Melbourne await.