.A thought-provoking "conspiracy idea" about Collingwood's late-game methods has actually been floated following its damaging defeat to the Swans. Has the AFL saw onto the Magpies' save-the-game frame of mind and advised its peacemakers to be on the lookout for gamers seeking regular stoppages? Judge for yourself. It comes following Collingwood's fourth-quarter capitulation versus Sydney final Friday evening-- Craig McRae's guys gave in a game-high 27-point top early in the ultimate term to drop by 3 aspects at the SCG, and also undo their finals opportunities. 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? Start your free of cost trial today > Cycle 22WHAT'S GAMBLING REALLY PRICED AT YOU? Establish a deposit limit.Last time, in the 13 times the Magpies led at three-quarter-time, they took place to get victory. This year, nevertheless, Collingwood has actually gone 8-4 in games where it held the advantage at the final improvement. "They liquidated activities (in 2013). This year ... they haven't quite been able to obtain it performed," St Kilda wonderful Leigh Montagna told Fox Footy's First Crack on Sunday evening. The 287-gamer positioned his concept for why that might be. "Our team honored Collingwood last year for its capability to close activities down-- get regular halts, keep it in strict, set up just how they desire to set up," he proceeded, presenting examples coming from the Pies' final-quarter failure. "( Patrick) Lipinski in 2014 takes that ball, takes the address, (they) reset, receive one more discontinuance, as well as they can receive the video game on their phrases, as well as they can easily only take a while off the time clock. "( But) the reception sprays out as well as it led to the first target (for Sydney in the last quarter). "Then only pair of mins later on, Steele Sidebottom-- he recognizes what he would like to carry out he would like to take the handle, visit ground, get a ball-up-- however possibly due to the new holding-the-ball guidelines, every person's obtaining conscious. "All of a sudden, instead of maintaining it in it squirts out, Chad Warner pounces on it-- bang, an additional goal." Even 401-gamer Scott Pendlebury thought the pressure late in the contest. "Once more, 3 mins later on, Pendlebury in the protective 50-- generally he would certainly merely take the take on, he will lose his hips, acquire an additional discontinuance-- he overreacts a bit, lets it spill out, and also was the (second-last) target," Montagna detailed. "I merely assumed Collingwood only lost a little bit of their ability (to liquidate close games) ... all those little factors amounted to all of them spending a 27-point top." Double premiership player David Master positioned the idea to Montagna that perhaps the AFL had actually recorded onto Collingwood's late-game methods, which perhaps the peacemakers were particularly looking out for the Cakes' trademark save-the-game way of thinking-- and also the past St got on panel. "Maybe, yeah-- it is actually a really good conspiracy theory," he pointed out. "Perhaps they (the AFL as well as its own moderators) are onto it-- overdue in video games, we know that Collingwood tries and perform these things, (perhaps they're mentioning) 'let's be aware of it'. "I presume that is actually decent, given that they've performed it for a number of years currently." Collingwood will be actually specifically dirty about its failure after finding fellow finals hopefuls Essendon, Carlton as well as the Western Bulldogs locate Sunday as well as Sunday. The Magpies continue to be in 11th posture on the ladder as well as need a magic to apply for the finals away-- finalizing matches along with Brisbane as well as Melbourne wait for.