.An intriguing "conspiracy idea" regarding Collingwood's late-game approaches has been drifted following its own damaging loss to the Swans. Has the AFL got onto the Magpies' save-the-game attitude and taught its own peacemakers to be in search of players seeking loyal stops? Judge on your own. It happens adhering to Collingwood's fourth-quarter capitulation against Sydney final Friday night-- Craig McRae's guys gave in a game-high 27-point top early in the ultimate condition to lose through three aspects at the SCG, in addition to reverse their finals odds. Enjoy every activity until the 2024 AFL Grand Final cope with no ad-breaks in the course of play on Kayo. New to Kayo? Begin your free ordeal today > Cycle 22WHAT'S GAMING REALLY PRICING YOU? Prepare a deposit limit.Last period, in the 13 times the Magpies led at three-quarter-time, they went on to secure triumph. This year, nevertheless, Collingwood has gone 8-4 in games where it stored the perk at the final improvement. "They liquidated activities (last year). This year ... they have not quite had the capacity to get it carried out," Street Kilda wonderful Leigh Montagna informed Fox Footy's First Gap on Sunday night. The 287-gamer presented his idea for why that might be. "Our experts admired Collingwood in 2013 for its capacity to close games down-- receive loyal stoppages, maintain it in tight, established exactly how they want to put together," he continued, presenting examples from the Pies' final-quarter failure. "( Patrick) Lipinski last year takes that reception, takes the deal with, (they) reset, receive an additional interruption, and they may obtain the activity on their phrases, and they can only require time off the time clock. "( Yet) the reception squirts out and also it led to the initial target (for Sydney in the final one-fourth). "Then simply 2 mins later, Steele Sidebottom-- he knows what he wishes to perform he would like to take the deal with, head to ground, acquire a ball-up-- however maybe as a result of the new holding-the-ball guidelines, everybody's acquiring mindful. "All of a sudden, as opposed to maintaining it in it sprays out, Chad Warner catches it-- value, an additional goal." Even 401-gamer Scott Pendlebury felt the stress late in the competition. "Once again, three mins later, Pendlebury in the protective fifty-- commonly he 'd simply take the deal with, he would certainly fall his hips, get one more interruption-- he worries a little, lets it spill over out, and also was the (second-last) target," Montagna discussed. "I simply believed Collingwood just dropped a little bit of their capability (to close out close games) ... all those little things added up to all of them paying a 27-point top." Twin premiership player David Master positioned the idea to Montagna that perhaps the AFL had caught onto Collingwood's late-game approaches, and that perhaps the umpires were particularly keeping an eye out for the Pies' trademark save-the-game frame of mind-- and the past St. got on board. "Maybe, yeah-- it's a great conspiracy idea," he pointed out. "Possibly they (the AFL as well as its peacemakers) are actually onto it-- late in video games, we understand that Collingwood attempts as well as do these factors, (perhaps they are actually saying) 'permit's know it'. "I think that is actually reasonable, because they have actually performed it for a number of years now." Collingwood will definitely be actually particularly dirty about its own collapse after seeing fellow finals hopefuls Essendon, Carlton and the Western Bulldogs stumble on Saturday and also Sunday. The Magpies continue to be in 11th placement on the step ladder and also require a wonder to apply for the finals from here-- closing matches with Brisbane as well as Melbourne wait for.