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Sydney Swans vs Port Adelaide — AFL 2026 Round 22

Round 22

Match details

Home & Away
Round 22
Sydney Swans
vs
Port Adelaide
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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

9Ongoing injuries11
6Long-term (LTI)8
7 dDays' rest7 d
0 kmLast month air km654 km
Squad stabilitySYD 13thPTA 2nd 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 (SYD 4, PTA 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.
Sat 8 Aug · 4:15pm·Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney
State
NSW
Surface
Natural grass
Roof
Open roof
Capacity
48,000

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.

SYD
  • Tom Papleyback from lower leg · 1 game back
    Recurrence
PTA

Current injuries

Every ongoing injury for both squads entering this game (20 across both), ranked by impact.

SYD carry the cleaner bill of health — PTA enter with 11 ongoing injuries to SYD's 9, 8 of them long-term.

SYD
  • Liam Hetherton
    LTI

    Chest/Torso — Lumbar Stress Fracture

    Long-term
    Due Oct 24
  • Max KingFWD
    LTI

    Chest/Torso — Back Injury (General)

    Long-term
    Due Aug 12
  • Joel AmarteyFWD
    LTI

    Ankle/Foot — Achilles Tendon Rupture

    Severe
    Injury-proneDue Sep 3
  • Justin McInerneyMID
    LTI

    Hamstring — Hamstring Strain

    Severe
    Due Aug 17
  • Noah Chamberlain
    LTI

    Hamstring — Hamstring Strain

    Severe
    Due Aug 29
  • Will Green
    LTI

    Foot — Foot Stress Fracture

    Moderate
    Due tomorrow
  • Sam WicksDEF

    Hamstring — Hamstring Strain

    Moderate
    FragileDue Aug 6
  • Logan McDonaldFWD

    Quadriceps — Quadriceps Strain

    Minor
    Due tomorrow
  • Peter LadhamsRUC

    Groin/Hip — Groin Strain

    Minor
    Injury-proneDue Jul 25

Signals

  • 3durability-fragile
  • Body regions:
    • Hamstring3
    • Chest/Torso2
  • What they lose: 3 of 6 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.