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Gold Coast Suns vs St Kilda — AFL 2026 Round 9

Round 9

Match details

Home & Away
Round 9
Full time
Gold Coast Suns
89–60
St Kilda
2nd
of 18 · index 100Round 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
5th
of 18 · index 100Round 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 3rd of 18 · index 62
Season 13th of 18 · index 34+8vs season

Head-to-head

6Ongoing injuries9
2Long-term (LTI)4
6 dDays' rest7 d
3Games in 21 days3
3,189 kmLast month air km1,307 km
Squad stabilityGCS 13thSTK 7th 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 (GCS 1, STK 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.
Sat 9 May · 7:10pm·TIO Stadium, Darwin
State
NT
Surface
Natural grass
Roof
Open roof
Capacity
12,500

Injuries from this game

What this game cost — players hurt in it, OSIICS-classified, each linked to its injury record.

GCS

No injuries reported

STK
  • •Callum Wilkie
    Minor
    Chest/Torso· typically ~2 gamesBack injury — sustained in STK vs GCS Round 9 (2026-05-09). Listed Back Test on AFL R10…

Current injuries

Every ongoing injury carried by each squad today (15 across both). Injuries sustained in this game are in the casualty report above.

GCS carry the cleaner bill of health — STK enter with 9 ongoing injuries to GCS's 6, 4 of them long-term.

GCS
  • Shoulder — Shoulder Injury (General)

    Long-term
    Injury-proneDue Mar 1, 2027
  • Knee — Knee Injury (General)

    Long-term
    Injury-proneOverdue (16 days)
  • Foot — Foot Injury (General)

    Minor
    Due Mar 1, 2027
  • Chest/Torso — Rib Contusion

    Minor
    Due Mar 1, 2027
  • Wil PowellDEF
    Recurrence

    Shoulder — Shoulder Injury (General)

    Minor
    Due Mar 1, 2027
  • Lachie WellerMID
    Recurrence

    Hamstring — Hamstring Strain

    Minor
    Due Mar 1, 2027

Signals

  • 2recurrences
  • 4awaiting diagnosis
  • 2durability-fragile
  • Body regions: 2× shoulder
  • What they lose: 2 defenders, 2 midfielders, 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.