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Gold Coast Suns vs Essendon — AFL 2026 Round 6

Round 6

Match details

Home & Away
Round 6
Full time
Gold Coast Suns
119–110
Essendon
3rd
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
15th
of 18 · index 59Round 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.
GCS entered healthier — 3rd v 15th this round
Season 3rd of 18 · index 61
Season 14th of 18 · index 34

Head-to-head

7Ongoing injuries9
1Long-term (LTI)4
7 dDays' rest7 d
2Games in 21 days3
4,276 kmLast month air km1,307 km
Squad stabilityGCS 14thESS 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 (GCS 1, ESS 3).

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 18 Apr · 1:15pm·Heritage Bank Stadium, Gold Coast
State
QLD
Surface
Natural grass
Roof
Open roof
Capacity
25,000

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.

GCS
ESS

None returned

Current injuries

Every ongoing injury carried by each squad today (16 across both). Injuries sustained in this game are in the casualty report above.

GCS carry the cleaner bill of health — ESS enter with 9 ongoing injuries to GCS's 7, 4 of them long-term.

GCS
  • Elliott HimmelbergFWD
    LTI

    Knee — Knee Injury (General)

    Long-term
    Injury-proneDue Sep 30
  • Lachlan GulbinFWD

    Wrist/Hand — Hand/Wrist Injury (General)

    Moderate
    Due Aug 1
  • Daniel RioliDEF

    Head/Neck — Jaw Fracture

    Moderate
    Possible return
    Due tomorrow
  • Alex DaviesMID

    Foot — Foot Injury (General)

    Moderate
    Injury-proneDue tomorrow
  • Will GrahamFWD

    Shoulder — Shoulder Injury (General)

    Minor
    Injury-proneDue this week
  • Lachie WellerMID
    Recurrence

    Hamstring — Hamstring Strain

    Minor
    Due this week
  • Jy FarrarFWD

    Ankle/Foot — Ankle Injury (General)

    Minor
    Injury-proneDue Aug 2

Signals

  • 1recurrence
  • 3awaiting diagnosis
  • 4durability-fragile
  • What they lose: 4 of 7 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.