.A thought-provoking "conspiracy theory" concerning Collingwood's late-game strategies has been actually floated following its own devastating loss to the Swans. Has the AFL got onto the Magpies' save-the-game mentality as well as coached its moderators to be looking for gamers seeking replay blockages? Judge for yourself. It comes following Collingwood's fourth-quarter capitulation versus Sydney last Friday evening-- Craig McRae's males caved in a game-high 27-point lead early in the last term to lose through 3 points at the SCG, along with reverse their finals chances. View every video game until the 2024 AFL Grand Final deal with no ad-breaks throughout play on Kayo. New to Kayo? Beginning your totally free hardship today > Round 22WHAT'S GAMBLING REALLY COSTING YOU? Prepare a deposit limit.Last season, in the thirteen opportunities the Magpies led at three-quarter-time, they went on to get victory. This year, nevertheless, Collingwood has gone 8-4 in video games where it held the advantage at the final change. "They liquidated games (in 2013). This year ... they have not very managed to receive it carried out," St Kilda great Leigh Montagna said to Fox Footy's First Gap on Sunday evening. The 287-gamer postured his concept for why that may be. "Our team admired Collingwood last year for its own capacity to shut games down-- acquire regular blockages, keep it in limited, put together just how they would like to set up," he carried on, presenting examples coming from the Cakes' final-quarter crash. "( Patrick) Lipinski last year takes that ball, takes the take on, (they) reset, obtain an additional interruption, and also they can get the activity on their phrases, as well as they may simply require time off the clock. "( But) the reception sprays out and also it triggered the first objective (for Sydney in the final fourth). "After that just 2 moments later on, Steele Sidebottom-- he understands what he would like to perform he wants to take the deal with, visit ground, receive a ball-up-- yet possibly due to the brand-new holding-the-ball policies, every person's receiving aware. "All of a sudden, as opposed to keeping it in it squirts out, Chad Warner pounces on it-- bang, an additional objective." Also 401-gamer Scott Pendlebury experienced the stress late in the contest. "Once more, 3 minutes later, Pendlebury in the defensive 50-- generally he would certainly simply take the handle, he will drop his hips, get an additional discontinuance-- he stresses a little bit, permits it spill out, and also was the (second-last) objective," Montagna detailed. "I just thought Collingwood merely lost a little bit of their potential (to terminate the account close games) ... all those little bit of points added up to all of them divulging a 27-point lead." Dual premiership player David King posed the concept to Montagna that probably the AFL had actually caught onto Collingwood's late-game approaches, and also maybe the peacemakers were actually especially watching out for the Cakes' trademark save-the-game mindset-- and the past St. got on board. "Possibly, yeah-- it is actually a great conspiracy theory," he stated. "Perhaps they (the AFL as well as its own moderators) are onto it-- overdue in video games, we know that Collingwood attempts and perform these things, (possibly they are actually pointing out) 'allow's understand it'. "I presume that is actually fair, since they have actually performed it for a number of years right now." Collingwood will definitely be particularly dirty regarding its crash after viewing fellow finals hopefuls Essendon, Carlton and the Western Bulldogs locate Saturday and Sunday. The Magpies remain in 11th posture on the step ladder and also need a magic to receive the finals hence-- finalizing competitions with Brisbane and also Melbourne wait for.