.A thought-provoking "conspiracy idea" regarding Collingwood's late-game methods has been drifted observing its damaging defeat to the Swans. Has the AFL found onto the Magpies' save-the-game frame of mind and also advised its moderators to become on the lookout for players looking for replay discontinuances? Judge for yourself. It happens following Collingwood's fourth-quarter capitulation versus Sydney final Friday night-- Craig McRae's men succumbed a game-high 27-point top early in the ultimate term to lose through 3 factors at the SCG, and also reverse their finals possibilities. View every video game until the 2024 AFL Grand Final deal with no ad-breaks during the course of play on Kayo. New to Kayo? Beginning your cost-free ordeal today > Round 22WHAT'S GAMBLING REALLY PRICING YOU? Establish a deposit limit.Last season, in the thirteen opportunities the Magpies led at three-quarter-time, they happened to secure success. This year, having said that, Collingwood has gone 8-4 in video games where it stored the conveniences at the final modification. "They terminated the account video games (in 2013). This year ... they haven't quite had the ability to receive it carried out," St Kilda great Leigh Montagna told Fox Footy's First Gap on Sunday night. The 287-gamer postured his theory for why that could be. "Our company honored Collingwood in 2015 for its capacity to shut video games down-- acquire repeat standstills, maintain it in tight, set up exactly how they desire to establish," he proceeded, pointing out instances coming from the Pies' final-quarter crash. "( Patrick) Lipinski in 2014 takes that ball, takes the deal with, (they) reset, obtain an additional deduction, and they may acquire the video game on their phrases, and they can easily only take some time off the time clock. "( However) the reception sprays out and also it brought about the very first goal (for Sydney in the last fourth). "After that only 2 minutes later on, Steele Sidebottom-- he understands what he wants to carry out he would like to take the handle, head to ground, acquire a ball-up-- but possibly due to the new holding-the-ball rules, everybody's getting conscious. "Suddenly, as opposed to maintaining it in it sprays out, Chad Warner catches it-- value, one more objective." Also 401-gamer Scott Pendlebury felt the tension behind time in the competition. "Once more, three mins later on, Pendlebury in the protective fifty-- typically he will merely take the address, he 'd fall his hips, get one more stoppage-- he worries a bit, allows it spill over out, and also was the (second-last) objective," Montagna revealed. "I simply assumed Collingwood just shed a little bit of their capability (to liquidate close video games) ... all those little bit of factors added up to all of them coughing up a 27-point top." Dual premiership player David King postured the concept to Montagna that maybe the AFL had actually captured onto Collingwood's late-game tactics, which maybe the umpires were actually particularly looking out for the Cakes' hallmark save-the-game perspective-- and the former St. got on board. "Possibly, yeah-- it is actually a great conspiracy idea," he mentioned. "Maybe they (the AFL and also its umpires) are actually onto it-- overdue in activities, we understand that Collingwood tries and also carry out these factors, (possibly they are actually stating) 'let's recognize it'. "I presume that's decent, given that they've performed it for a couple of years currently." Collingwood is going to be especially unclean about its own crash after viewing fellow finals hopefuls Essendon, Carlton and also the Western Bulldogs locate Sunday and also Sunday. The Magpies remain in 11th posture on the ladder and need to have a wonder to obtain the finals from here-- finalizing competitions along with Brisbane and also Melbourne wait for.