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Brisbane Lions vs Gold Coast Suns — AFL 2026 Round 23

Round 23

Match details

Home & Away
Round 23
Full time
Brisbane Lions
95–53
Gold Coast Suns
3rd
of 18 · index 56Round 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
1st
of 18 healthiest · index 72Round 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.

Evenly matched on squad health.

Season 12th of 18 · index 41+9vs season
Season 1st of 18 · index 86

Head-to-head

4Ongoing injuries6
4Long-term (LTI)2
8 dDays' rest6 d
3Games in 21 days3
4,979 kmLast month air km2,249 km
Squad stabilityBRL 10thGCS 17th 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 (BRL 0, GCS 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.
Sat 15 Aug · 4:15pm·The Gabba, Brisbane
State
QLD
Surface
Natural grass
Roof
Open roof
Capacity
42,000

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.

BRL

None returned

GCS

Current injuries

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

BRL carry the cleaner bill of health — GCS enter with 6 ongoing injuries to BRL's 4, 2 of them long-term.

BRL
  • Zane ZakostelskyRUC
    LTI

    Knee — ACL Tear

    Long-term
    Injury-proneDue Mar 1, 2027
  • Reece TorrentMID
    LTI
    Recurrence

    Ankle/Foot — Ankle Injury (General)

    Long-term
    Due Mar 1, 2027
  • Henry SmithFWD
    LTI
    Recurrence

    Foot — Lisfranc Injury

    Long-term
    Injury-proneDue Mar 1, 2027
  • Jack PayneDEF
    LTI
    Recurrence

    Knee — Patellar Tendinopathy

    Long-term
    FragileDue Mar 1, 2027

Signals

  • 3recurrences
  • 1awaiting diagnosis
  • 3durability-fragile
  • Body regions: 2× knee
  • What they lose: 1 defender, 1 midfielder, 1 forward, 1 ruckman

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.