.A thought-provoking "conspiracy theory" about Collingwood's late-game strategies has been actually drifted following its destructive defeat to the Swans. Has the AFL caught onto the Magpies' save-the-game perspective and also coached its umpires to become on the lookout for gamers looking for regular halts? Court for yourself. It happens adhering to Collingwood's fourth-quarter capitulation versus Sydney last Friday night-- Craig McRae's males succumbed a game-high 27-point top early in the last condition to lose through three points at the SCG, in addition to reverse their finals chances. Watch every video game till the 2024 AFL Grand Final deal with no ad-breaks during play on Kayo. New to Kayo? Beginning your cost-free hardship today > Round 22WHAT'S WAGERING REALLY PRICING YOU? Prepare a down payment limit.Last season, in the 13 opportunities the Magpies led at three-quarter-time, they happened to get victory. This year, nonetheless, Collingwood has gone 8-4 in games where it stored the benefit at the final adjustment. "They closed the books activities (in 2013). This year ... they have not fairly had the capacity to receive it performed," St Kilda excellent Leigh Montagna said to Fox Footy's First Fracture on Sunday evening. The 287-gamer presented his concept for why that could be. "Our team lauded Collingwood in 2015 for its capacity to shut video games down-- obtain regular interruptions, keep it in tight, put together how they would like to put together," he carried on, mentioning examples coming from the Cakes' final-quarter collapse. "( Patrick) Lipinski in 2013 takes that reception, takes the take on, (they) reset, obtain an additional blockage, as well as they can acquire the game on their conditions, and also they can easily simply require time off the clock. "( Yet) the ball squirts out and it resulted in the first objective (for Sydney in the last fourth). "After that merely pair of minutes later, Steele Sidebottom-- he knows what he would like to carry out he desires to take the handle, most likely to ground, acquire a ball-up-- but possibly as a result of the brand-new holding-the-ball policies, everyone's acquiring conscious. "Suddenly, rather than maintaining it in it sprays out, Chad Warner pounces on it-- bang, another objective." Also 401-gamer Scott Pendlebury experienced the pressure behind time in the competition. "Once more, three mins later on, Pendlebury in the defensive fifty-- commonly he will simply take the deal with, he 'd lose his hips, obtain one more interruption-- he runs scared a bit, allows it splash out, and that was actually the (second-last) goal," Montagna clarified. "I only presumed Collingwood simply shed a little bit of their potential (to terminate the account close activities) ... all those little bit of factors added up to all of them coughing up a 27-point lead." Twin premiership gamer David Master postured the concept to Montagna that maybe the AFL had caught onto Collingwood's late-game strategies, and also possibly the peacemakers were actually specifically keeping an eye out for the Pies' trademark save-the-game perspective-- as well as the previous St was on panel. "Possibly, yeah-- it's an excellent conspiracy concept," he said. "Possibly they (the AFL and also its own umpires) are actually onto it-- overdue in video games, we understand that Collingwood attempts and also carry out these things, (possibly they're claiming) 'let's know it'. "I believe that's reasonable, given that they've performed it for a couple of years now." Collingwood will certainly be actually particularly unclean regarding its own failure after seeing fellow finals hopefuls Essendon, Carlton and also the Western side Bulldogs discover Sunday and Sunday. The Magpies continue to be in 11th placement on the ladder and also require a miracle to get the finals from here-- shutting competitions along with Brisbane and Melbourne await.