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North Melbourne vs Port Adelaide — AFL 2026 Round 1

Round 1

Match details

Home & Away
Round 1
Full time
North Melbourne
113–67
NTH by 46
Port Adelaide
14th
of 18 · index 82Round Health Score (0–100), last 1 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
15th
of 18 · index 81Round Health Score (0–100), last 1 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 5th of 18 · index 93−9vs season
Season 4th of 18 · index 100−11vs season

Head-to-head

8Ongoing injuries12
3Long-term (LTI)8
Last month air km
Squad stabilityNTH 13thPTA 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 (NTH 1, PTA 2).

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 15 Mar · 1:10pm·Marvel Stadium, Melbourne
State
VIC
Surface
Hybrid surface
Roof
Retractable roof
Capacity
56,347

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.

NTH
PTA

None returned

Current injuries

Every ongoing injury carried by each squad today (20 across both). Injuries sustained in this game are in the casualty report above.

NTH carry the cleaner bill of health — PTA enter with 12 ongoing injuries to NTH's 8, 8 of them long-term.

NTH
  • 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 this week
  • Josh GoaterDEF

    Managed

    Minor
    Possible return
    Injury-proneDue today
  • Jacob KonstantyFWD

    Managed

    Minor
    Possible return
    Due today
  • 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.