THE TRADERS’ FANTASY CLASSIC STOCK MARKET

from AFL Record Round 15, 2023

WEEK

Stocks Up

The stocks couldn’t be much higher for Zach Merrett (MID, $994,000), who is the pick of the bunch if you’re chasing a player coming off the round 14 bye. Don’t be spooked by his score of 97 last time he was in action, Merrett still has the fifth-best average for the season. The Bombers skipper is already owned by nearly 19 per cent of the competition, so if you’re chasing a player who isn’t as popular, you could turn to another midfield gun in Tom Mitchell (MID, $875,000). Collingwood’s ball magnet churned out a pair of 120s before his week off and the Fantasy favourite was getting his snout dirty by laying 23 tackles in those two games. Mitchell hasn’t scored at the same level as we’ve seen in the past, but you can never count out a Fantasy pig. The form of St Kilda’s Brad Crouch (MID, $853,000) is becoming hard to ignore after he helped himself to another 30-plus disposals last week. You can save yourself about $100K by trading for Crouch over the top-tier fantasy MIDs and a friendly Fantasy fixture to run out the year only adds to the appeal. If you want to save even more cash, you could roll the dice on Elliot Yeo (DEF, $605,000) now he seems to have put his injury woes behind him. A three-round average of 91 for the West Coast defender makes him mighty tempting, even if he has caused us to pull our hair out at times.

Stocks Down

Another dud score coupled with his round 15 bye will see Sam Walsh (MID, $828,000) given the flick by a lot of coaches – and I don’t blame them. Trading away premium players is usually considered taboo, but the gut-running Carlton midfielder owns an uninspiring three-round average of 76. We need more. ‘Walshy’ won’t be the only premium moved on this week, with Jack Ziebell (FWD/ DEF, $802,000) also in the firing line. Possessing handy FWD/DEF status, Ziebell could be swung around the ground to help you field 18 players this week, although there’s nothing wrong with trading the rebounding Roo after just one 100-plus score in his past five games. North Melbourne’s Jy Simpkin (MID, $626,000) has also been a letdown over the past few weeks, with his sub-affected score of seven damaging his season average. Even if we ignore that, the Kangaroos co-captain is only averaging 81 points in 2023, making him hard to trust going forward. Sticking with underperforming premiums, Jack Steele (MID, $794,000) continues to frustrate owners following his season-low score. The ‘Man of Steele’ only laid four tackles in the loss to Richmond, failing to record a mark with 16 handballs among his 21 possessions.

HEALTHY BODY

The importance of exercise in our daily lives in order to maintain a strong and healthy body! Participants will partake in a range of group cardio fitness activities and challenges.

2 HEALTHY FOOD

To keep our body and mind healthy, we need to fuel ourselves with a range of nutritious and delicious foods. Participants’ knowledge will be challenged in multiple food activities that will test andproblem-solvingtheirskills understanding of food.

HEALTHY TEAM

Theimportanceofworking together,supportingone anotheranddeveloping relationships.Participants willplayarangeof team-buildinggames, with the inclusionofcompetitions andchallenges.

4 HEALTHYMIND needTotrulybehealthy,wetocareforourmind justasmuchasourbody. ParticipantswilllearnBox tacticsBreathingstrategiesand tohelpregulatetheiremotions.

Coles Healthy Kicks aims to educate, activate and motivate students to become more physically active, eat nutritious foods and develop a healthy mind while having fun with others.

Cardio

Training your cardio abilities not only keeps you in the game longer but helps strengthen your heart and lungs. Cardio exercises also increase your energy and mood, helping your brain stay focused and ready.

Exercises

All of these exercises are to be done for 30 seconds with 30 seconds rest.

• Squat Jumps to a Ground Ball – Start standing up with a footy in front of you. Squat down and grab the footy with two hands. On the way back up, jump in the air with the footy. Once landed, squat back down and place the footy back on the ground. Once you are back standing up again, repeat.

• Side to Side Handballs – Start standing up. Take three sidesteps in one way and practise a handball from each hand without a footy on the spot. Now take three sidesteps in the other direction and practise the handballs again. Keep repeating this.

• Russian Twists – Start sitting on the ground holding a footy. Find a spot where you can balance sitting with your feet in the air. Keeping your hands on the footy and your head straight forward, move the footy to each side of your body, touching it on the ground each time.

• Mountain Climbers – Start in a push-up position. Keeping your hands where they are, bring one leg up so your knee is near your elbow. Now in almost a jump, swap legs. Continue doing this.

• Sprinter Sit-Ups – Start laying on your back and begin a normal sit-up. When your body is leaving the ground, bring one knee to your chest and raise your opposite arm to the knee. When doing this, you will look like a sprinter! Continue this, changing sides on each sit-up.

The program is built on four key pillars –Healthy Body, Healthy Mind, Healthy Food and Healthy Team.

Healthy Body is all about physical activity and movement.

• Skipping on the Spot – Staying in the same spot, start skipping where you are. Make sure that on each skip you get your knees high in the air.

Keeping fit and active is a great way to stay healthy and have fun with friends.

Be it kicking the footy or checking out one of the Coles Healthy Kicks training videos, there are heaps of easy ways to have a Healthy Body.

• Butt Kicks – Start standing up. Start running on the spot but with each step, try to kick your foot to your butt. You don’t have to do this on the spot, you can try running around the backyard with butt kicks!

To find out more Mobility and Strength exercises for other parts of the body visit afl.com.au/video