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Hawthorn vs Collingwood — AFL 2026 Round 23

Round 23

Match details

Home & Away
Round 23
Full time
Hawthorn
92–92
Collingwood
6th
of 18 · index 38Round 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 5Round 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 — 6th v 12th this round
Season 3rd of 18 · index 73−3vs season
Season 5th of 18 · index 68−7vs season

Head-to-head

3Ongoing injuries8
1Long-term (LTI)5
8 dDays' rest6 d
3Games in 21 days2
1,373 kmLast month air km3,377 km
Squad stabilityHAW 3rdCOL 15th 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, COL 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.
Sat 15 Aug · 7:40pm·Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne
State
VIC
Surface
Natural grass
Roof
Open roof
Capacity
100,024

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.

HAW
COL

Current injuries

Every ongoing injury carried by each squad today (11 across both). Injuries sustained in this game are in the casualty report above.

HAW carry the cleaner bill of health — COL enter with 8 ongoing injuries to HAW's 3, 5 of them long-term.

HAW
  • Head/Neck — Neck Muscle Strain

    Long-term
    FragileDue Mar 1, 2027
  • Hamstring — Hamstring Strain

    Minor
    Injury-proneDue Mar 1, 2027
  • 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.