.A thought-provoking "conspiracy concept" concerning Collingwood's late-game strategies has been floated following its terrible defeat to the Swans. Has the AFL saw onto the Magpies' save-the-game attitude and taught its moderators to become on the lookout for players seeking regular standstills? Judge for yourself. It comes complying with Collingwood's fourth-quarter capitulation versus Sydney final Friday night-- Craig McRae's guys caved in a game-high 27-point top early in the last term to shed through 3 aspects at the SCG, as well as undo their finals opportunities. See every activity till the 2024 AFL Grand Final deal with no ad-breaks in the course of play on Kayo. New to Kayo? Beginning your totally free hardship today > Cycle 22WHAT'S WAGERING REALLY PRICED AT YOU? Prepare a down payment limit.Last season, in the thirteen opportunities the Magpies led at three-quarter-time, they went on to safeguard success. This year, having said that, Collingwood has actually gone 8-4 in video games where it held the benefit at the ultimate improvement. "They closed the books activities (in 2013). This year ... they haven't pretty had the capacity to get it carried out," St Kilda fantastic Leigh Montagna informed Fox Footy's First Fracture on Sunday evening. The 287-gamer positioned his theory for why that might be. "Our team honored Collingwood last year for its own ability to close games down-- acquire replay blockages, keep it in limited, established how they intend to put together," he carried on, citing instances from the Cakes' final-quarter collapse. "( Patrick) Lipinski in 2014 takes that ball, takes the tackle, (they) reset, obtain one more stoppage, and they can easily acquire the activity on their phrases, and they may just take a while off the time clock. "( However) the ball sprays out and it triggered the very first objective (for Sydney in the final one-fourth). "Then merely two mins later, Steele Sidebottom-- he understands what he desires to perform he wants to take the address, visit ground, obtain a ball-up-- however perhaps as a result of the new holding-the-ball policies, everybody's getting mindful. "All of a sudden, as opposed to keeping it in it sprays out, Chad Detector catches it-- bang, another goal." Also 401-gamer Scott Pendlebury felt the stress late in the contest. "Again, three mins eventually, Pendlebury in the protective 50-- usually he would certainly simply take the tackle, he 'd drop his hips, acquire one more stop-- he runs scared a little bit, allows it spill over out, and also was actually the (second-last) target," Montagna discussed. "I simply assumed Collingwood simply dropped a little bit of their potential (to terminate the account close video games) ... all those little bit of traits amounted to them coughing up a 27-point lead." Double premiership player David Master postured the theory to Montagna that possibly the AFL had actually caught onto Collingwood's late-game strategies, and also possibly the umpires were especially looking out for the Pies' trademark save-the-game attitude-- and also the previous St. was on board. "Maybe, yeah-- it is actually a great conspiracy theory," he stated. "Maybe they (the AFL and also its moderators) are onto it-- late in video games, we know that Collingwood makes an effort as well as do these things, (perhaps they are actually pointing out) 'allow's recognize it'. "I presume that's fair, given that they have actually done it for a couple of years right now." Collingwood will certainly be particularly unclean about its own failure after finding fellow finals hopefuls Essendon, Carlton and also the Western side Bulldogs stumble on Saturday as well as Sunday. The Magpies continue to be in 11th posture on the step ladder and also require a wonder to qualify for the finals away-- finalizing competitions along with Brisbane as well as Melbourne await.