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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
3rd
of 18 · index 83Round 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
14th
of 18 · index 41Round 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.
BRL entered healthier — 3rd v 14th this round
Season 13th of 18 · index 29+10vs season
Season 17th of 18 · index 10+3vs season

Head-to-head

4Ongoing injuries10
4Long-term (LTI)7
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 0, ESS 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 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 (14 across both). Injuries sustained in this game are in the casualty report above.

BRL carry the cleaner bill of health — ESS enter with 10 ongoing injuries to BRL's 4, 7 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.