.A thought-provoking "conspiracy theory" concerning Collingwood's late-game approaches has actually been actually floated following its own disastrous defeat to the Swans. Has the AFL caught onto the Magpies' save-the-game attitude and coached its umpires to become in search of players finding regular deductions? Judge on your own. It happens complying with Collingwood's fourth-quarter capitulation versus Sydney last Friday evening-- Craig McRae's males surrendered a game-high 27-point top early in the last phrase to drop through 3 factors at the SCG, along with undo their finals odds. View every activity until the 2024 AFL Grand Final LIVE with no ad-breaks in the course of play on Kayo. New to Kayo? Start your free of cost hardship today > Round 22WHAT'S WAGERING REALLY COSTING YOU? Set a down payment limit.Last time, in the 13 opportunities the Magpies led at three-quarter-time, they took place to get victory. This year, however, Collingwood has actually gone 8-4 in games where it held the advantage at the ultimate modification. "They closed the books games (last year). This year ... they haven't pretty had the ability to receive it done," St Kilda wonderful Leigh Montagna told Fox Footy's First Crack on Sunday evening. The 287-gamer presented his theory for why that may be. "Our experts admired Collingwood last year for its capability to shut games down-- acquire loyal standstills, maintain it in tight, established exactly how they desire to establish," he proceeded, pointing out examples from the Pies' final-quarter failure. "( Patrick) Lipinski in 2014 takes that reception, takes the tackle, (they) reset, obtain one more stoppage, as well as they can acquire the video game on their conditions, and also they can simply take a while off the time clock. "( Yet) the reception sprays out as well as it resulted in the first goal (for Sydney in the last fourth). "After that merely 2 minutes eventually, Steele Sidebottom-- he knows what he would like to carry out he desires to take the address, go to ground, acquire a ball-up-- however maybe as a result of the brand new holding-the-ball rules, everybody's getting mindful. "All of a sudden, instead of keeping it in it squirts out, Chad Detector catches it-- bang, another target." Also 401-gamer Scott Pendlebury felt the pressure behind time in the competition. "Once again, three mins eventually, Pendlebury in the defensive 50-- generally he would certainly just take the deal with, he would certainly lose his hips, receive another stop-- he stresses a small amount, allows it spill over out, which was actually the (second-last) goal," Montagna explained. "I only believed Collingwood just shed a bit of their ability (to close the books close games) ... all those little bit of traits amounted to all of them spending a 27-point top." Dual premiership gamer David Master positioned the concept to Montagna that maybe the AFL had actually captured onto Collingwood's late-game approaches, which possibly the umpires were primarily watching out for the Pies' hallmark save-the-game way of thinking-- and also the past St was on board. "Perhaps, yeah-- it's a great conspiracy theory," he said. "Perhaps they (the AFL as well as its umpires) are actually onto it-- late in video games, we know that Collingwood makes an effort and also carry out these points, (maybe they are actually saying) 'allow's be aware of it'. "I presume that is actually reasonable, since they've performed it for a number of years currently." Collingwood will certainly be specifically unclean about its collapse after seeing fellow finals hopefuls Essendon, Carlton as well as the Western side Bulldogs stumble on Saturday as well as Sunday. The Magpies remain in 11th posture on the ladder and need a wonder to receive the finals from here-- shutting matchups along with Brisbane as well as Melbourne wait for.