.An intriguing "conspiracy concept" about Collingwood's late-game techniques has been actually floated observing its disastrous defeat to the Swans. Has the AFL got onto the Magpies' save-the-game frame of mind and also coached its own umpires to be on the lookout for players seeking regular stops? Judge for yourself. It comes following Collingwood's fourth-quarter capitulation versus Sydney final Friday night-- Craig McRae's men succumbed a game-high 27-point lead early in the ultimate term to lose by three points at the SCG, as well as undo their finals opportunities. Check out every game up until the 2024 AFL Grand Final deal with no ad-breaks throughout use Kayo. New to Kayo? Start your free of charge difficulty today > Cycle 22WHAT'S BETTING REALLY PRICED AT YOU? Establish a deposit limit.Last season, in the thirteen times the Magpies led at three-quarter-time, they went on to get triumph. This year, nevertheless, Collingwood has gone 8-4 in games where it kept the advantage at the final modification. "They liquidated games (in 2014). This year ... they have not pretty had the capacity to obtain it carried out," St Kilda excellent Leigh Montagna said to Fox Footy's First Split on Sunday evening. The 287-gamer presented his concept for why that may be. "Our company lauded Collingwood in 2014 for its capacity to shut games down-- acquire loyal discontinuances, keep it in strict, established just how they intend to put together," he continued, mentioning examples coming from the Pies' final-quarter crash. "( Patrick) Lipinski in 2015 takes that ball, takes the address, (they) reset, get an additional halt, and they can receive the activity on their conditions, as well as they may just take some time off the time clock. "( However) the ball sprays out and also it triggered the initial objective (for Sydney in the last one-fourth). "Then only 2 minutes later, Steele Sidebottom-- he recognizes what he intends to carry out he desires to take the address, head to ground, obtain a ball-up-- but maybe because of the new holding-the-ball rules, every person's receiving aware. "Suddenly, as opposed to keeping it in it squirts out, Chad Warner pounces on it-- value, yet another objective." Even 401-gamer Scott Pendlebury thought the stress late in the competition. "Again, 3 mins later on, Pendlebury in the defensive fifty-- ordinarily he would certainly merely take the tackle, he 'd drop his hips, obtain yet another interruption-- he stresses a bit, allows it splash out, and that was actually the (second-last) goal," Montagna described. "I only presumed Collingwood merely dropped a little bit of their ability (to close out close activities) ... all those little traits amounted to all of them coughing up a 27-point lead." Dual premiership player David Master presented the theory to Montagna that probably the AFL had actually recorded onto Collingwood's late-game methods, and also perhaps the peacemakers were actually exclusively watching out for the Cakes' hallmark save-the-game perspective-- and also the past Saint got on board. "Perhaps, yeah-- it's a good conspiracy theory," he pointed out. "Perhaps they (the AFL and its moderators) are actually onto it-- overdue in activities, we know that Collingwood tries and perform these traits, (perhaps they are actually pointing out) 'allow's be aware of it'. "I assume that is actually fair, since they've performed it for a number of years currently." Collingwood will be actually specifically gross about its crash after viewing 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 require a wonder to qualify for the finals away-- closing matchups with Brisbane as well as Melbourne await.