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Hawthorn vs Brisbane Lions — AFL 2026 Finals Week 28

Finals Week 28

Match details

Preliminary Final
Finals Week 28
Full time
Hawthorn
122–131
Brisbane Lions
1st
of 18 healthiest · index 81Round 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
4th
of 18 · index 65Round 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 72+3vs season
Season 12th of 18 · index 51+8vs season

Head-to-head

3Ongoing injuries4
1Long-term (LTI)4
16 dDays' rest7 d
1Games in 21 days2
5,442 kmLast month air km733 km
Squad stabilityHAW 3rdBRL 10th 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, BRL 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 19 Sept · 5:15pm·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.

Current injuries

Every ongoing injury carried by each squad today (7 across both). Injuries sustained in this game are in the casualty report above.

HAW hold a slight availability edge (4 ongoing injuries to 3); BRL 4 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.