.A thought-provoking "conspiracy theory" regarding Collingwood's late-game approaches has been actually drifted following its devastating defeat to the Swans. Possesses the AFL found onto the Magpies' save-the-game state of mind as well as advised its own moderators to become in search of players seeking replay stoppages? Judge for yourself. It happens adhering to Collingwood's fourth-quarter capitulation against Sydney last Friday night-- Craig McRae's males caved in a game-high 27-point top early in the ultimate condition to lose by three points at the SCG, in addition to undo their finals opportunities. Watch every game till the 2024 AFL Grand Final LIVE with no ad-breaks during the course of use Kayo. New to Kayo? Beginning your free of cost trial today > Cycle 22WHAT'S GAMBLING REALLY COSTING YOU? Specify a down payment limit.Last season, in the 13 opportunities the Magpies led at three-quarter-time, they took place to secure victory. This year, however, Collingwood has actually gone 8-4 in games where it kept the conveniences at the last modification. "They terminated the account video games (last year). This year ... they have not quite managed to get it done," Street Kilda great Leigh Montagna informed Fox Footy's First Split on Sunday night. The 287-gamer postured his theory for why that might be. "We admired Collingwood in 2013 for its potential to shut video games down-- receive replay interruptions, maintain it in tight, set up just how they desire to set up," he continued, mentioning instances coming from the Cakes' final-quarter crash. "( Patrick) Lipinski in 2014 takes that ball, takes the take on, (they) reset, obtain another discontinuance, and they can easily obtain the activity on their phrases, and they may merely take a while off the time clock. "( But) the reception sprays out and also it triggered the initial objective (for Sydney in the final fourth). "After that only two minutes eventually, Steele Sidebottom-- he recognizes what he wants to do he desires to take the address, most likely to ground, acquire a ball-up-- however perhaps because of the brand-new holding-the-ball guidelines, everybody's acquiring conscious. "Suddenly, rather than maintaining it in it sprays out, Chad Warner catches it-- bang, an additional goal." Also 401-gamer Scott Pendlebury experienced the stress behind time in the competition. "Once again, 3 moments later, Pendlebury in the defensive fifty-- usually he will merely take the handle, he 'd fall his hips, obtain yet another deduction-- he stresses a bit, lets it splash out, and that was the (second-last) target," Montagna detailed. "I only assumed Collingwood simply shed a bit of their capacity (to close out close activities) ... all those little bit of traits added up to all of them coughing up a 27-point lead." Dual premiership gamer David Master presented the idea to Montagna that probably the AFL had actually captured onto Collingwood's late-game strategies, and that maybe the moderators were actually primarily watching out for the Cakes' trademark save-the-game mentality-- as well as the previous St was 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-- late in activities, we know that Collingwood attempts and do these factors, (possibly they're stating) 'permit's be aware of it'. "I think that is actually decent, because they've performed it for a couple of years now." Collingwood will be actually specifically unclean about its crash after viewing fellow finals hopefuls Essendon, Carlton and also the Western side Bulldogs discover Saturday and Sunday. The Magpies stay in 11th position on the step ladder and need to have a wonder to receive the finals away-- finalizing matchups along with Brisbane as well as Melbourne wait for.