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North Melbourne vs St Kilda — AFL 2026 Round 20

Round 20

Match details

Home & Away
Round 20
North Melbourne
vs
St Kilda
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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

8Ongoing injuries5
3Long-term (LTI)3
8 dDays' rest10 d
2Games in 21 days2
654 kmLast month air km0 km
Squad stabilityNTH 10thSTK 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 (NTH 1, STK 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.
Sun 26 July · 3:15pm·Marvel Stadium, Melbourne
State
VIC
Surface
Hybrid surface
Roof
Retractable roof
Capacity
56,347

Possible returns

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

NTH
STKno possible returns

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.

NTH
STK

Current injuries

The confirmed outs for both squads (11 across both), ranked by impact. Players in doubt are listed under Possible returns above.

STK carry the cleaner bill of health — NTH enter with 8 ongoing injuries to STK's 5, 3 of them long-term.

NTH6 out
  • Toby PinkDEF
    LTI

    Shoulder — Shoulder Dislocation

    Long-term
    FragileDue Oct 1
  • Blake Thredgold
    LTI

    Ankle/Foot — Foot Fracture

    Long-term
    Due Oct 1
  • Jackson ArcherDEF
    LTI

    Knee — ACL Tear

    Long-term
    Injury-proneDue Jan 11, 2027
  • Tom PowellMID

    Groin/Hip — Groin Strain

    Minor
    Due Jul 25
  • Tom Blamires

    Head/Neck — Concussion

    Minor
    Due this week
  • George WardlawMID
    Recurrence

    Hamstring — Hamstring Strain

    Minor
    FragileDue Aug 8

Signals

  • 1recurrence
  • 4durability-fragile
  • Body regions: 2× systemic/other
  • What they lose: 3 of 6 outs are defenders

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.