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Hawthorn vs Melbourne — AFL 2026 Round 17

Round 17

Match details

Home & Away
Round 17
Full time
Hawthorn
90–125
Melbourne
8th
of 18 · index 46Round 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
13th
of 18 · index 15Round 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.
HAW entered healthier — 8th v 13th this round
Season 4th of 18 · index 68−4vs season
Season 10th of 18 · index 49−3vs season

Head-to-head

8Ongoing injuries8
0Long-term (LTI)4
8 dDays' rest14 d
2Games in 21 days2
1,342 kmLast month air km657 km
Squad stabilityHAW 5thMEL 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 (HAW 1, MEL 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 4 July · 1:15pm·UTAS Stadium, Launceston
State
TAS
Surface
Natural grass
Roof
Open roof
Capacity
21,000

Injuries from this game

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

HAW

No injuries reported

MEL
  • •Bayley Fritsch
    Minor
    Recurrence
    Wrist/Hand· typically ~1 gameFinger injury — listed as a Test on the AFL R18 Medical Room. Onset unverified against…

Back from injury

Players who returned from injury in this game, each linking to their profile.

HAW
MEL

Current injuries

Every ongoing injury carried by each squad today (16 across both). Injuries sustained in this game are in the casualty report above.

Evenly matched on availability (8 ongoing apiece) — HAW carrying a recurrence, MEL 4 of them long-term.

HAW
  • Karl AmonDEF
    Recurrence

    Knee — Knee Injury (General)

    Moderate
    Due Aug 15
  • Jack ScrimshawDEF

    Knee — Meniscus Tear

    Moderate
    Due Aug 8
  • Henry HustwaiteMID

    Head/Neck — Facial Fracture

    Minor
    Injury-proneDue Aug 9
  • Jack Dalton

    Knee — Knee Injury (General)

    Minor
    Due Aug 22
  • Ned ReevesRUC

    Knee — Knee Injury (General)

    Minor
    Injury-proneDue this week
  • Josh BattleDEF

    Systemic/Other — Unspecified Injury

    Minor
    Due this week
  • Nick WatsonFWD

    Hamstring — Hamstring Strain

    Minor
    IronmanDue this week
  • Conor NashMID

    Head/Neck — Neck Muscle Strain

    Minor
    FragileDue Aug 22

Signals

  • 1recurrence
  • 3awaiting diagnosis
  • 3durability-fragile
  • Body regions:
    • Knee4
    • Head/Neck2
  • What they lose: 3 defenders, 2 midfielders, 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.