.A provocative "conspiracy concept" concerning Collingwood's late-game tactics has been actually drifted observing its own dreadful defeat to the Swans. Possesses the AFL got onto the Magpies' save-the-game way of thinking and coached its own umpires to be on the lookout for gamers finding repeat deductions? Court for yourself. It comes complying with Collingwood's fourth-quarter capitulation versus Sydney final Friday evening-- Craig McRae's males yielded a game-high 27-point lead early in the final phrase to lose by 3 aspects at the SCG, as well as undo their finals opportunities. Enjoy every activity up until the 2024 AFL Grand Final LIVE with no ad-breaks in the course of play on Kayo. New to Kayo? Begin your free hardship today > Round 22WHAT'S GAMING REALLY PRICING YOU? Prepare a deposit limit.Last season, in the 13 opportunities the Magpies led at three-quarter-time, they took place to secure triumph. This year, nonetheless, Collingwood has actually gone 8-4 in games where it stored the benefit at the final modification. "They closed the books games (in 2015). This year ... they have not fairly been able to receive it performed," Street Kilda great Leigh Montagna said to Fox Footy's First Crack on Sunday evening. The 287-gamer postured his concept for why that could be. "Our team honored Collingwood in 2013 for its ability to shut activities down-- receive repeat stops, keep it in strict, established how they wish to establish," he continued, presenting instances coming from the Pies' final-quarter crash. "( Patrick) Lipinski in 2015 takes that ball, takes the take on, (they) reset, obtain one more stop, as well as they can obtain the activity on their phrases, and also they can easily merely take some time off the clock. "( Yet) the reception sprays out and it caused the initial target (for Sydney in the final fourth). "Then merely two mins later on, Steele Sidebottom-- he knows what he would like to do he wants to take the tackle, go to ground, acquire a ball-up-- however maybe because of the new holding-the-ball regulations, everyone's receiving conscious. "Suddenly, instead of keeping it in it sprays out, Chad Detector catches it-- value, one more target." Even 401-gamer Scott Pendlebury experienced the pressure behind time in the competition. "Once more, 3 minutes later, Pendlebury in the defensive 50-- generally he would certainly just take the deal with, he will lose his hips, get one more deduction-- he overreacts a bit, lets it spill over out, which was actually the (second-last) objective," Montagna explained. "I only assumed Collingwood merely lost a bit of their potential (to close the books close games) ... all those little bit of traits amounted to all of them paying a 27-point top." Dual premiership player David King posed the idea to Montagna that probably the AFL had actually recorded onto Collingwood's late-game approaches, and that maybe the peacemakers were actually exclusively looking out for the Pies' hallmark save-the-game attitude-- and the previous Saint was on panel. "Possibly, yeah-- it's a great conspiracy theory," he mentioned. "Possibly they (the AFL and its umpires) are onto it-- overdue in activities, we understand that Collingwood tries and also perform these factors, (maybe they are actually claiming) 'let's recognize it'. "I believe that is actually decent, given that they've performed it for a number of years currently." Collingwood will be specifically unclean about its own collapse after viewing fellow finals hopefuls Essendon, Carlton and also the Western side Bulldogs discover Sunday and also Sunday. The Magpies continue to be in 11th placement on the step ladder as well as need to have a magic to get the finals from here-- closing competitions with Brisbane and Melbourne wait for.