.A thought-provoking "conspiracy idea" concerning Collingwood's late-game methods has actually been drifted observing its terrible defeat to the Swans. Has the AFL got onto the Magpies' save-the-game frame of mind and advised its moderators to be in search of players seeking replay standstills? Judge for yourself. It comes following Collingwood's fourth-quarter capitulation against Sydney final Friday night-- Craig McRae's guys caved in a game-high 27-point lead early in the final term to shed through 3 aspects at the SCG, as well as undo their finals opportunities. View every video game until the 2024 AFL Grand Final LIVE with no ad-breaks during use Kayo. New to Kayo? Beginning your complimentary trial today > Round 22WHAT'S GAMBLING REALLY PRICING YOU? Specify a deposit limit.Last season, in the thirteen times the Magpies led at three-quarter-time, they happened to protect success. This year, nevertheless, Collingwood has actually gone 8-4 in activities where it stored the conveniences at the ultimate change. "They closed the books games (in 2013). This year ... they haven't very managed to obtain it carried out," St Kilda great Leigh Montagna said to Fox Footy's First Gap on Sunday night. The 287-gamer postured his idea for why that could be. "Our company admired Collingwood in 2015 for its capacity to shut activities down-- get loyal deductions, keep it in strict, set up just how they desire to set up," he continued, mentioning examples from the Cakes' final-quarter failure. "( Patrick) Lipinski in 2015 takes that reception, takes the tackle, (they) reset, get an additional deduction, as well as they may receive the game on their terms, as well as they can easily simply take some time off the clock. "( But) the ball squirts out as well as it caused the 1st target (for Sydney in the last quarter). "After that only 2 mins later on, Steele Sidebottom-- he understands what he intends to carry out he wants to take the handle, go to ground, acquire a ball-up-- but maybe as a result of the brand-new holding-the-ball policies, everybody's receiving mindful. "Suddenly, as opposed to keeping it in it squirts out, Chad Warner catches it-- bang, yet another target." Also 401-gamer Scott Pendlebury felt the stress behind time in the competition. "Once more, three moments eventually, Pendlebury in the defensive 50-- typically he 'd just take the tackle, he will lose his hips, receive another discontinuance-- he overreacts a little, lets it spill over out, and that was the (second-last) goal," Montagna discussed. "I only presumed Collingwood simply dropped a little bit of their capacity (to close out close video games) ... all those little factors added up to all of them coughing up a 27-point lead." Double premiership player David King postured the theory to Montagna that maybe the AFL had caught onto Collingwood's late-game methods, and also possibly the peacemakers were actually primarily keeping an eye out for the Cakes' trademark save-the-game frame of mind-- as well as the past St got on panel. "Maybe, yeah-- it is actually a great conspiracy idea," he stated. "Perhaps they (the AFL as well as its own umpires) are actually onto it-- late in games, we understand that Collingwood tries and carry out these points, (possibly they are actually saying) 'let's understand it'. "I assume that is actually decent, due to the fact that they've done it for a number of years now." Collingwood will be especially filthy concerning its failure after observing fellow finals hopefuls Essendon, Carlton as well as the Western Bulldogs find Sunday as well as Sunday. The Magpies continue to be in 11th position on the ladder and also need a magic to qualify for the finals hence-- shutting competitions with Brisbane and Melbourne await.