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Hawthorn vs GWS Giants — AFL 2026 Round 16

Round 16

Match details

Home & Away
Round 16
Full time
Hawthorn
96–82
GWS Giants
7th
of 18 · index 78Round 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
18th
of 18 worst · index 21Round 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 — 7th v 18th this round
Season 4th of 18 · index 67−3vs season
Season 17th of 18 · index 19

Head-to-head

3Ongoing injuries16
1Long-term (LTI)9
7 dDays' rest6 d
2Games in 21 days2
1,342 kmLast month air km2,721 km
Squad stabilityHAW 4thGWS 15th 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, GWS 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.
Fri 26 June · 7:40pm·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
  • •Nick Watson
    Minor
    Hamstring· typically ~2 gamesHamstring tightness — ruled out at half-time in Round 16 v GWS (in-game).
GWS
  • Max Gruzewski
    Severe
    Knee· typically ~4 gamesPatella dislocation — leg buckled in a contest, helped from field in agony, in Round 16 v…
  • •Brent Daniels
    Moderate
    Lower Leg· typically ~2 gamesCalf injury — helped off, unable to weight-bear right leg, in Round 16 v Hawthorn…

Back from injury

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

HAW

None returned

GWS

Current injuries

Every ongoing injury carried by each squad today (19 across both). Injuries sustained in this game are in the casualty report above.

HAW carry the cleaner bill of health — GWS enter with 16 ongoing injuries to HAW's 3, 9 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.