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St Kilda vs Carlton — AFL 2026 Round 22

Round 22

Match details

Home & Away
Round 22
St Kilda
vs
Carlton
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—Round 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
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—Round 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 not yet available.

Season —
Season —

Head-to-head

5Ongoing injuries8
3Long-term (LTI)4
8 dDays' rest8 d
Last month air km
Squad stabilitySTK 7thCAR 1st 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 (STK 1, CAR 1).

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.
Sun 9 Aug · 7:20pm·Marvel Stadium, Melbourne
State
VIC
Surface
Hybrid surface
Roof
Retractable roof
Capacity
56,347

Possible returns

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

STKno possible returns
CAR
  • Lewis YoungDEF
    Projected return
    Head/Neck — ConcussionDue this week

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.

STK
CAR

Current injuries

The confirmed outs for both squads (12 across both), ranked by impact. Players in doubt are listed under Possible returns above.

STK carry the cleaner bill of health — CAR enter with 8 ongoing injuries to STK's 5, 4 of them long-term.

STK5 out
  • Sam FlandersFWD
    LTI

    Ankle/Foot — Achilles Tendon Rupture

    Long-term
    Due May 29, 2027
  • Jack SinclairDEF
    LTI

    Lower Leg — Calf Strain

    Severe
    Due Oct 1
  • Max KingFWD
    LTI

    Hamstring — Hamstring Strain

    Moderate
    FragileDue Aug 1
  • Tom De KoningRUC

    Chest/Torso — Rib Contusion

    Minor
    Due this week
  • James BarratDEF

    Foot — Foot Injury (General)

    Minor
    Due Aug 25

Signals

  • 1awaiting diagnosis
  • 1durability-fragile
  • What they lose: 2 defenders, 2 forwards, 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.