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Hawthorn vs Essendon — AFL 2026 Round 20

Round 20

Match details

Home & Away
Round 20
Full time
Hawthorn
132–39
Essendon
10th
of 18 · index 60Round 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
14th
of 18 · index 32Round 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.
HAW entered healthier — 10th v 14th this round
Season 6th of 18 · index 66−4vs season
Season 18th of 18 · index 4+4vs season

Head-to-head

3Ongoing injuries10
1Long-term (LTI)7
6 dDays' rest6 d
3Games in 21 days3
0 kmLast month air km1,375 km
Squad stabilityHAW 2ndESS 7th 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 2, ESS 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 25 July · 4:15pm·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.

HAW
  • •Mitch Lewis
    Minor
    Head/Neck· typically ~2 gamesConcussion — clash of heads with Jaxon Artemis while tackling in the first quarter against…
ESS
  • Jordan Ridley
    Long-term
    FootFoot injury — landed awkwardly in the second quarter against Hawthorn and felt something…
  • Sullivan Robey
    Long-term
    Knee· typically ~3 gamesMedial knee ligament injury — his leg was caught in a tackle in the third quarter against…

Back from injury

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

HAW
ESS

Current injuries

Every ongoing injury carried by each squad today (13 across both). Injuries sustained in this game are in the casualty report above.

HAW carry the cleaner bill of health — ESS enter with 10 ongoing injuries to HAW's 3, 7 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
  • Cody AndersonMID

    Hamstring — Hamstring Strain

    Minor
    Possible return
    Due Mar 1, 2027

Signals

  • 2durability-fragile
  • Body regions: 2× hamstring
  • What they lose: 3 of 3 outs are 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.