LAST WEEKEND our Fantasy experts, The Traders, boarded a flight west to what they soon realised was the Fantasy capital of the country.

Heading to the Paddington Alehouse in Perth via a limo to talk about AFL Fantasy with 500 punters was something that needed to be seen to be believed. It was a room packed full of like-minded people, many arriving solo but leaving with plenty of new mates, attending the event for the love of their Fantasy teams.

The rousing reception when Stefan Martin and Brodie Grundy owners learned that their understudies were omitted for the weekend, nearly brought the roof down. Warnie was particularly excited. It’s a shame Martin and Grundy didn’t come to the party scoring 86 and 79 respectively; a long way from their season average.

Roy welcomed Fantasy’s overall champion from 2014 to the stage, Peter Hookham, along with Channel 7 reporter Ryan Daniels (also known as Footy Rhino to the Fantasy public) and number cruncher Eric Magtuto who is within range of winning the car.

The highlight of the evening was Calvin closing the show. He grabbed a guitar and gave his take on the Mike Brady classic, Up There Cazaly.

Calvin’s lyrics, many of which can’t be published here, saw the coach of Calvinator donning the green substitute vest as the lowest weekly scorer of The Traders - "I’m in the green vest, I’m angry at the world …"

The weekend also included an appearance at the West Coast Eagles Derby lunch. The boys put Sam Butler and Jeremy McGovern through their paces in a quiz and interviewed Luke Shuey and Fantasy fan Elliot Yeo. The abrasive player/coach relationship was mended and Calvin agreed to not call him a Yeo-Yeo anymore, while Elliot said he would be more consistent. The pair kissed and made up.

Unfortunately, the relationship was soured as Calvin headed off to Domain Stadium for the last Derby to be played at the ground. The final teams came through and Yeo was a late withdrawal. Calvin was a broken man.

The trip west was a success but The Traders needed a few days to recover. We're blaming the red eye flight home, wondering how the teams from WA handle doing it every second week. Maybe the players possibly look after their bodies a little bit better than Roy, Calvin and Warnie!