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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
7th
of 18 · index 78Round 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
12th
of 18 · index 71Round 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 4th of 18 · index 69−3vs season
Season 11th of 18 · index 51

Head-to-head

3Ongoing injuries9
1Long-term (LTI)5
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 2, MEL 0).

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 (12 across both). Injuries sustained in this game are in the casualty report above.

HAW carry the cleaner bill of health — MEL enter with 9 ongoing injuries to HAW's 3, 5 of them long-term.

HAW
  • Conor NashMID
    LTI

    Head/Neck — Neck Muscle Strain

    Long-term
    FragileDue Mar 1, 2027
  • Sam ButlerMID

    Hamstring — Hamstring Strain

    Minor
    Injury-proneDue Mar 1, 2027
  • Cody AndersonMID

    Hamstring — Hamstring Strain

    Minor
    Possible return
    Due Mar 1, 2027

Signals

  • 2durability-fragile
  • Body regions: 2× hamstring
  • What they lose: 3 of 3 outs are midfielders

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.