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Sydney Swans vs North Melbourne — AFL 2026 Round 24

Round 24

Match details

Home & Away
Round 24
Sydney Swans
vs
North Melbourne
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Round health
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Round health not yet available.

Season —
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Head-to-head

9Ongoing injuries8
6Long-term (LTI)3
Last month air km
Squad stabilitySYD 13thNTH 10th 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, NTH 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.
Mon 17 Aug · Time TBC·Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney
State
NSW
Surface
Natural grass
Roof
Open roof
Capacity
48,000

Possible returns

Currently-injured players who could feature — fitness tests, squad signals and projected returns.

SYDno possible returns
NTH

Current injuries

The confirmed outs for both squads (15 across both), ranked by impact. Players in doubt are listed under Possible returns above.

NTH hold a slight availability edge (9 ongoing injuries to 8); SYD 6 of them long-term.

SYD9 out
  • 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.