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Hawthorn vs Geelong Cats — AFL 2026 Round 4

Round 4

Match details

Home & Away
Round 4
Full time
Hawthorn
92–91
HAW by 1
Geelong Cats
4th
of 18 · index 100Round Health Score (0–100), last 4 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
12th
of 18 · index 82Round Health Score (0–100), last 4 rounds. Scores drift down league-wide as the season's injury load builds — read the slope relative to the league, not the level.

Evenly matched on squad health.

Season 1st of 18 · index 88−3vs season
Season 3rd of 18 · index 75−9vs season

Head-to-head

8Ongoing injuries10
0Long-term (LTI)2
18 dDays' rest11 d
1Games in 21 days1
Last month air km
Squad stabilityHAW 9thGEE 4th 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 (HAW 1, GEE 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.
Mon 6 Apr · 3:15pm·Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne
State
VIC
Surface
Natural grass
Roof
Open roof
Capacity
100,024

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.

Current injuries

Every ongoing injury carried by each squad today (18 across both). Injuries sustained in this game are in the casualty report above.

HAW carry the cleaner bill of health — GEE enter with 10 ongoing injuries to HAW's 8, 2 of them long-term.

HAW
  • Karl AmonDEF
    Recurrence

    Knee — Knee Injury (General)

    Moderate
    Due Aug 15
  • Jack ScrimshawDEF

    Knee — Meniscus Tear

    Moderate
    Due Aug 8
  • Henry HustwaiteMID

    Head/Neck — Facial Fracture

    Minor
    Injury-proneDue Aug 9
  • Jack Dalton

    Knee — Knee Injury (General)

    Minor
    Due Aug 22
  • Ned ReevesRUC

    Knee — Knee Injury (General)

    Minor
    Injury-proneDue today
  • Josh BattleDEF

    Systemic/Other — Unspecified Injury

    Minor
    Possible return
    Due today
  • Nick WatsonFWD

    Hamstring — Hamstring Strain

    Minor
    Possible return
    IronmanDue today
  • Conor NashMID

    Head/Neck — Neck Muscle Strain

    Minor
    FragileDue Aug 22

Signals

  • 1recurrence
  • 3awaiting diagnosis
  • 3durability-fragile
  • Body regions:
    • Knee4
    • Head/Neck2
  • What they lose: 3 defenders, 2 midfielders, 1 forward, 1 ruckman

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.