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Hawthorn vs Western Bulldogs — AFL 2026 Round 5

Round 5

Match details

Home & Away
Round 5
Full time
Hawthorn
104–64
Western Bulldogs
4th
of 18 · index 100Round 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
7th
of 18 · index 100Round 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.

Evenly matched on squad health.

Season 3rd of 18 · index 63
Season 14th of 18 · index 40+7vs season

Head-to-head

2Ongoing injuries5
1Long-term (LTI)2
5 dDays' rest6 d

HAW on a short 5-day turnaround — at/under the 5-day congestion mark.

1Games in 21 days1
0 kmLast month air km654 km
Squad stabilityHAW 12thWBD 15th 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, WBD 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.
Sat 11 Apr · 7:35pm·Adelaide Oval, Adelaide
State
SA
Surface
Natural grass
Roof
Open roof
Capacity
53,583

Injuries from this game

What this game cost — players hurt in it, OSIICS-classified, each linked to its injury record.

HAW

No injuries reported

WBD
  • •Connor Budarick
    Moderate
    Hamstring· typically ~2 gamesHamstring strain — sustained in Round 5 loss to Hawthorn (April 11, 2026). AFL official R6…

Back from injury

Players who returned from injury in this game, each linking to their profile.

HAW
WBD

Current injuries

Every ongoing injury carried by each squad today (7 across both). Injuries sustained in this game are in the casualty report above.

HAW carry the cleaner bill of health — WBD enter with 5 ongoing injuries to HAW's 2, 2 of them long-term.

HAW
  • Conor NashMID
    LTI

    Head/Neck — Neck Muscle Strain

    Long-term
    FragileDue Mar 1, 2027
  • Sam ButlerMID

    Hamstring — Hamstring Strain

    Minor
    Injury-proneDue Mar 1, 2027

Signals

  • 2durability-fragile
  • What they lose: 2 midfielders

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.