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Sydney Swans vs Adelaide Crows — AFL 2026 Round 19

Round 19

Match details

Home & Away
Round 19
Sydney Swans
vs
Adelaide Crows
9th
of 18 · index 25Round Health Score (0–100), last 5 rounds. Scores drift down league-wide as the season's injury load builds — read the slope relative to the league, not the level.
Round health
4th
of 18 · index 50Round Health Score (0–100), last 5 rounds. Scores drift down league-wide as the season's injury load builds — read the slope relative to the league, not the level.
ADE enters healthier — 4th v 9th this round
Season 12th of 18 · index 35+3vs season
Season 5th of 18 · index 68

Head-to-head

9Ongoing injuries7
6Long-term (LTI)0
8 dDays' rest6 d
2Games in 21 days3
4,022 kmLast month air km2,128 km
Squad stabilitySYD 13thADE 3rd of 18

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 (SYD 4, ADE 4).

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.
Fri 17 July · 7:40pm·Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney
State
NSW
Surface
Natural grass
Roof
Open roof
Capacity
48,000

Possible returns

Currently-injured players who could feature — fitness tests, squad signals and projected returns.

SYDno possible returns
ADE

Returnees to watch

Recently back from injury and still in the elevated-reinjury window — risk concentrates in the first games back, especially for soft-tissue.

SYD
  • Tom Papleyback from lower leg · 1 game back
    Recurrence
  • Tom Hanilyback from head/neck · 2 games back
  • Lewis Melicanback from hamstring · 2 games backSoft-tissue return — recurrence risk is highest in the first games back.
  • Dane Rampeback from lower leg · 2 games back
    Recurrence
ADE
  • Wayne Mileraback from hamstring · 1 game backSoft-tissue return — recurrence risk is highest in the first games back.
  • Riley Thilthorpeback from other/systemic · 1 game back

Current injuries

The confirmed outs for both squads (15 across both), ranked by impact. Players in doubt are listed under Possible returns above.

ADE carry the cleaner bill of health — SYD enter with 9 ongoing injuries to ADE's 7, 6 of them long-term.

SYD9 out
  • Liam Hetherton
    LTI

    Chest/Torso — Lumbar Stress Fracture

    Long-term
    Due Oct 24
  • Max KingFWD
    LTI

    Chest/Torso — Back Injury (General)

    Long-term
    Due Aug 12
  • Joel AmarteyFWD
    LTI

    Ankle/Foot — Achilles Tendon Rupture

    Severe
    Injury-proneDue Sep 3
  • Justin McInerneyMID
    LTI

    Hamstring — Hamstring Strain

    Severe
    Due Aug 17
  • Noah Chamberlain
    LTI

    Hamstring — Hamstring Strain

    Severe
    Due Aug 29
  • Will Green
    LTI

    Foot — Foot Stress Fracture

    Moderate
    Due tomorrow
  • Sam WicksDEF

    Hamstring — Hamstring Strain

    Moderate
    FragileDue Aug 6
  • Logan McDonaldFWD

    Quadriceps — Quadriceps Strain

    Minor
    Due tomorrow
  • Peter LadhamsRUC

    Groin/Hip — Groin Strain

    Minor
    Injury-proneDue Jul 25

Signals

  • 3durability-fragile
  • Body regions:
    • Hamstring3
    • Chest/Torso2
  • What they lose: 3 of 6 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.