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Hawthorn vs North Melbourne — AFL 2026 Round 21

Round 21

Match details

Home & Away
Round 21
Full time
Hawthorn
99–83
North Melbourne
10th
of 18 · index 43Round 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
5th
of 18 · index 69Round 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.
NTH entered healthier — 5th v 10th this round
Season 5th of 18 · index 63−5vs season
Season 6th of 18 · index 57

Head-to-head

3Ongoing injuries7
1Long-term (LTI)6
7 dDays' rest7 d
3Games in 21 days2
0 kmLast month air km654 km
Squad stabilityHAW 2ndNTH 11th 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, NTH 0).

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 1 Aug · 1:35pm·UTAS Stadium, Launceston
State
TAS
Surface
Natural grass
Roof
Open roof
Capacity
21,000

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.

HAW

None returned

NTH

Current injuries

Every ongoing injury carried by each squad today (10 across both). Injuries sustained in this game are in the casualty report above.

HAW carry the cleaner bill of health — NTH enter with 7 ongoing injuries to HAW's 3, 6 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.