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Brisbane Lions vs Essendon — AFL 2026 Round 18

Round 18

Match details

Home & Away
Round 18
Full time
Brisbane Lions
149–59
Essendon
14th
of 18 · index 0Round 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
15th
of 18 · index 0Round 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 13th of 18 · index 27
Season 18th of 18 · index 8+3vs season

Head-to-head

4Ongoing injuries9
2Long-term (LTI)4
10 dDays' rest7 d
2Games in 21 days2
3,222 kmLast month air km0 km
Squad stabilityBRL 8thESS 6th 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 1, ESS 3).

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 12 July · 4:40pm·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
ESS

Current injuries

Every ongoing injury carried by each squad today (13 across both). Injuries sustained in this game are in the casualty report above.

BRL carry the cleaner bill of health — ESS enter with 9 ongoing injuries to BRL's 4, 4 of them long-term.

BRL
  • Jack PayneDEF
    LTI
    Recurrence

    Knee — Patellar Tendinopathy

    Long-term
    FragileDue Mar 1, 2027
  • Oscar AllenFWD
    LTI

    Ankle/Foot — Foot Fracture

    Severe
    Due this week
  • Darcy GardinerDEF

    Hamstring — Hamstring Strain

    Minor
    FragileDue Aug 8
  • Lincoln McCarthyFWD

    Lower Leg — Calf Strain

    Minor
    FragileDue Jul 26

Signals

  • 1recurrence
  • 3durability-fragile
  • What they lose: 2 defenders, 2 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.