.An intriguing "conspiracy concept" about Collingwood's late-game approaches has been drifted observing its disastrous defeat to the Swans. Has the AFL saw onto the Magpies' save-the-game way of thinking and also instructed its moderators to be looking for gamers seeking repeat discontinuances? Judge for yourself. It happens following Collingwood's fourth-quarter capitulation against Sydney final Friday night-- Craig McRae's males caved in a game-high 27-point lead early in the last term to drop through three aspects at the SCG, along with undo their finals possibilities. Check out every video game till the 2024 AFL Grand Final LIVE with no ad-breaks during the course of use Kayo. New to Kayo? Beginning your totally free difficulty today > Cycle 22WHAT'S GAMING REALLY PRICING YOU? Set a deposit limit.Last time, in the 13 opportunities the Magpies led at three-quarter-time, they went on to secure victory. This year, nevertheless, Collingwood has gone 8-4 in games where it stored the perk at the ultimate modification. "They closed out video games (in 2014). This year ... they haven't fairly had the ability to acquire it carried out," St Kilda fantastic Leigh Montagna told Fox Footy's First Split on Sunday night. The 287-gamer posed his theory for why that may be. "Our team lauded Collingwood last year for its own potential to shut games down-- receive replay blockages, maintain it in strict, established just how they intend to set up," he carried on, citing instances coming from the Pies' final-quarter failure. "( Patrick) Lipinski in 2014 takes that ball, takes the deal with, (they) reset, receive one more deduction, as well as they can easily acquire the activity on their conditions, and they can easily simply take time off the time clock. "( But) the ball sprays out as well as it brought about the 1st objective (for Sydney in the last quarter). "At that point merely 2 mins eventually, Steele Sidebottom-- he knows what he wishes to carry out he would like to take the deal with, most likely to ground, get a ball-up-- however possibly due to the new holding-the-ball policies, everyone's obtaining mindful. "Suddenly, instead of maintaining it in it sprays out, Chad Detector pounces on it-- bang, one more target." Even 401-gamer Scott Pendlebury experienced the tension behind time in the contest. "Again, 3 mins later on, Pendlebury in the protective 50-- generally he 'd simply take the address, he would certainly drop his hips, obtain another interruption-- he overreacts a little, lets it spill over out, and also was actually the (second-last) objective," Montagna discussed. "I merely assumed Collingwood just dropped a little bit of their capacity (to close out close video games) ... all those little bit of points amounted to them spending a 27-point lead." Dual premiership player David Master presented the concept to Montagna that possibly the AFL had recorded onto Collingwood's late-game tactics, and also perhaps the moderators were actually especially looking out for the Cakes' hallmark save-the-game state of mind-- as well as the former St got on board. "Perhaps, yeah-- it is actually a good conspiracy theory," he pointed out. "Perhaps they (the AFL as well as its peacemakers) are actually onto it-- late in video games, we understand that Collingwood makes an effort as well as do these traits, (maybe they're saying) 'let's recognize it'. "I think that is actually fair, because they have actually done it for a couple of years currently." Collingwood is going to be actually particularly gross about its own collapse after finding fellow finals hopefuls Essendon, Carlton and also the Western Bulldogs discover Saturday and also Sunday. The Magpies remain in 11th setting on the step ladder and require a magic to qualify for the finals away-- finalizing competitions with Brisbane and also Melbourne await.