.A provocative "conspiracy theory" concerning Collingwood's late-game approaches has been drifted following its own damaging loss to the Swans. Has the AFL caught onto the Magpies' save-the-game attitude and also coached its umpires to be looking for gamers finding repeat discontinuances? Court on your own. It comes complying with Collingwood's fourth-quarter capitulation against Sydney last Friday evening-- Craig McRae's men gave in a game-high 27-point top early in the final condition to drop through three aspects at the SCG, along with reverse their finals odds. View every game till the 2024 AFL Grand Final LIVE with no ad-breaks during the course of use Kayo. New to Kayo? Start your free of charge trial today > Cycle 22WHAT'S WAGERING REALLY COSTING YOU? Set a down payment limit.Last period, in the thirteen opportunities the Magpies led at three-quarter-time, they took place to protect success. This year, nonetheless, Collingwood has actually gone 8-4 in games where it stored the advantage at the final improvement. "They closed the books games (in 2013). This year ... they have not rather managed to acquire it performed," Street Kilda excellent Leigh Montagna told Fox Footy's First Fracture on Sunday night. The 287-gamer postured his idea for why that may be. "We honored Collingwood in 2015 for its own capacity to close activities down-- get repeat stoppages, keep it in tight, established just how they desire to put together," he proceeded, pointing out examples coming from the Pies' final-quarter crash. "( Patrick) Lipinski in 2015 takes that ball, takes the deal with, (they) reset, get an additional halt, and also they may acquire the game on their phrases, and also they may merely take some time off the clock. "( Yet) the ball squirts out and it caused the first goal (for Sydney in the last fourth). "After that merely two mins later on, Steele Sidebottom-- he understands what he wants to carry out he wants to take the deal with, head to ground, get a ball-up-- but perhaps as a result of the new holding-the-ball regulations, everyone's acquiring mindful. "All of a sudden, as opposed to keeping it in it squirts out, Chad Detector pounces on it-- value, one more objective." Also 401-gamer Scott Pendlebury believed the tension behind time in the contest. "Once more, three mins later, Pendlebury in the protective 50-- normally he will simply take the handle, he 'd drop his hips, acquire an additional stoppage-- he overreacts a little bit, permits it splash out, and also was the (second-last) objective," Montagna discussed. "I only believed Collingwood only dropped a little bit of their ability (to terminate the account close games) ... all those little things amounted to them spending a 27-point lead." Double premiership gamer David King posed the theory to Montagna that perhaps the AFL had actually recorded onto Collingwood's late-game techniques, which possibly the umpires were especially looking out for the Pies' hallmark save-the-game mentality-- and the previous St got on panel. "Perhaps, yeah-- it's a great conspiracy theory," he claimed. "Possibly they (the AFL as well as its own moderators) are onto it-- late in video games, we know that Collingwood tries as well as perform these things, (maybe they are actually claiming) 'let's understand it'. "I think that is actually fair, given that they have actually done it for a couple of years now." Collingwood will definitely be actually specifically filthy regarding its own failure after observing fellow finals hopefuls Essendon, Carlton and the Western side Bulldogs find Saturday as well as Sunday. The Magpies stay in 11th placement on the step ladder and need to have a magic to qualify for the finals hence-- closing matches along with Brisbane and Melbourne await.