.A thought-provoking "conspiracy concept" about Collingwood's late-game strategies has been actually drifted following its dreadful defeat to the Swans. Possesses the AFL caught onto the Magpies' save-the-game state of mind as well as coached its moderators to be looking for gamers finding replay discontinuances? Court on your own. It happens complying with Collingwood's fourth-quarter capitulation versus Sydney last Friday night-- Craig McRae's males surrendered a game-high 27-point lead early in the last phrase to lose through three aspects at the SCG, along with reverse their finals odds. Check out every video game until the 2024 AFL Grand Final LIVE with no ad-breaks during the course of play on Kayo. New to Kayo? Begin your totally free difficulty today > Cycle 22WHAT'S WAGERING REALLY COSTING YOU? Set a down payment limit.Last season, in the 13 times the Magpies led at three-quarter-time, they happened to secure victory. This year, however, Collingwood has actually gone 8-4 in games where it stored the perk at the last improvement. "They liquidated games (in 2015). This year ... they have not very managed to acquire it done," Street Kilda wonderful Leigh Montagna told Fox Footy's First Fracture on Sunday evening. The 287-gamer posed his concept for why that may be. "Our company admired Collingwood in 2013 for its capability to shut games down-- acquire regular stoppages, keep it in limited, set up how they want to establish," he continued, mentioning instances coming from the Cakes' final-quarter failure. "( Patrick) Lipinski in 2013 takes that ball, takes the tackle, (they) reset, obtain yet another stoppage, and also they can obtain the activity on their terms, and also they can just take some time off the time clock. "( But) the ball sprays out as well as it caused the very first target (for Sydney in the final one-fourth). "After that merely two moments eventually, Steele Sidebottom-- he knows what he wishes to perform he desires to take the deal with, go to ground, receive a ball-up-- yet possibly as a result of the brand-new holding-the-ball policies, everybody's obtaining conscious. "All of a sudden, instead of maintaining it in it sprays out, Chad Warner catches it-- bang, yet another target." Also 401-gamer Scott Pendlebury felt the pressure late in the contest. "Again, three minutes later, Pendlebury in the defensive 50-- generally he will only take the take on, he will lose his hips, obtain yet another discontinuance-- he freaks out a little, allows it spill out, which was actually the (second-last) goal," Montagna described. "I just believed Collingwood only lost a bit of their capability (to terminate the account close activities) ... all those little bit of factors added up to them coughing up a 27-point top." Dual premiership player David Master positioned the idea to Montagna that probably the AFL had captured onto Collingwood's late-game strategies, and that maybe the peacemakers were actually primarily watching out for the Cakes' trademark save-the-game mindset-- and also the previous St. got on panel. "Possibly, yeah-- it's a good conspiracy idea," he claimed. "Possibly they (the AFL and also its own umpires) are onto it-- overdue in games, we understand that Collingwood attempts and also perform these traits, (maybe they're mentioning) 'let's recognize it'. "I believe that's decent, because they have actually performed it for a couple of years currently." Collingwood will certainly be actually especially filthy regarding its own failure after finding fellow finals hopefuls Essendon, Carlton and the Western Bulldogs discover Saturday and also Sunday. The Magpies continue to be in 11th posture on the ladder and need a miracle to qualify for the finals away-- closing matchups along with Brisbane as well as Melbourne wait for.