Geelong Cats vs Richmond — AFL 2026 Round 24
Match details
Evenly matched on squad health.
Head-to-head
Value-weighted players used — 1st = most churn of key players, 18th = most settled. Weighted by player value (our metric), not raw squad size.
Soft-tissue = the OSIICS muscle/tendon family — the injuries most prone to recurrence (GEE 1, RIC 2).
What do these scores mean?
- Round Health
- — point-in-time (0–100, 100 = no injury absences), weighting current ongoing absences on a fixed scale comparable across rounds. The league average drifts down as the season's injury load builds, so low late-season numbers are normal.
- Season Health
- — cumulative season-to-date: value-weighted injury burden, availability and incidence. Load-managed rests are excluded from both.
- State
- VIC
- Surface
- Natural grass
- Roof
- Open roof
- Capacity
- 36,000
Injuries from this game
What this game cost — players hurt in it, OSIICS-classified, each linked to its injury record.
No injuries reported from this game.
Back from injury
Players who returned from injury in this game, each linking to their profile.
- Jeremy Cameronback from shoulder
- Sam De Koningback from knee
None returned
Current injuries
Every ongoing injury carried by each squad today (17 across both). Injuries sustained in this game are in the casualty report above.
GEE carry the cleaner bill of health — RIC enter with 11 ongoing injuries to GEE's 6, 9 of them long-term.
Knee — ACL Tear
Long-termDue (14 days ago)Foot — Navicular Stress Fracture
Long-termInjury-proneDue Mar 1, 2027Arm — Arm Injury (General)
ModerateIn rehabAwaiting DiagnosisDue Nov 30- Bailey SmithMID
Shoulder — Shoulder Instability
ModerateIn rehabDue Jan 15, 2027 - James WorpelMID
Hamstring — Hamstring Strain
MinorDue Mar 1, 2027 Knee — Knee Injury (General)
MinimalIn rehabAwaiting DiagnosisFragileDue Nov 15
Signals
- 1recurrence
- 2awaiting diagnosis
- 2durability-fragile
- Body regions: 2× knee
- What they lose: 2 midfielders, 2 ruckmen, 1 forward
- Sam CummingLTI
Ankle/Foot — High Ankle Sprain
Long-termDue (14 days ago) Foot — Foot Injury (General)
Long-termAwaiting DiagnosisFragileDue (14 days ago)Foot — Foot Injury (General)
Long-termAwaiting DiagnosisDue Mar 1, 2027- Kaleb SmithLTI
Quadriceps — Quadriceps Strain
Long-termInjury-proneDue Mar 1, 2027 Foot — Foot Injury (General)
Long-termAwaiting DiagnosisDue Mar 1, 2027Ankle/Foot — Ankle Fracture
Long-termDue Mar 1, 2027Chest/Torso — Lumbar Stress Fracture
Long-termOverdue (15 days)Knee — Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) Injury
Long-termInjury-proneDue Nov 1Quadriceps — Quadriceps Strain
Long-termDue Mar 1, 2027Managed
MinorDue Mar 1, 2027- Sam LalorFWD
Knee — Knee Injury (General)
MinorAwaiting DiagnosisDue Mar 1, 2027
Signals
- 4awaiting diagnosis
- 3durability-fragile
- Body regions:
- Foot3
- Ankle/Foot2
- Knee2
- Quadriceps2
- What they lose: 5 of 9 outs are forwards
Recurrence flags repeat injuries to the same body region within 24 months.
Injury classifications use the OSIICS system (Orchard Sports Injury and Illness Classification System). © John Orchard — Free to use with acknowledgment.