{"id":17041,"date":"2016-10-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/hawk-sam-mitchell-set-to-join-west-coast-eagles\/"},"modified":"2016-10-11T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-11T00:00:00","slug":"hawk-sam-mitchell-set-to-join-west-coast-eagles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/hawk-sam-mitchell-set-to-join-west-coast-eagles\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawk Sam Mitchell set to join West Coast Eagles"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>On Wednesday morning veteran Hawk Sam Mitchell spoke on Melbourne radio about the possibility he could leave the club and play at West Coast next year.<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cIf we are going to move, it is probably best for us as a family to do it now rather than later,\u201d Sam said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere has been some talk of this for two weeks &#8230; with a bit of work going on behind the scenes. If this goes through, there\u2019s no certainty to. If I can go over and help West Coast &#8230; If I stay at Hawthorn, that\u2019s okay.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I move to West Coast I\u2019d be really excited. It\u2019s a new challenge.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s the first time in my 15 year career that I\u2019d been involved in something like this. It has been a really respectful process, Hawthorn have been really transparent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll three parties will be coming out of this with a win.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Herald Sun is reporting<\/a> that Mitchell was close to moving to the Eagles last year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMitchell was open to a trade last year, having committed to moving to the Eagles anyway at some stage in the future to progress his coaching aspirations,\u201d the paper reports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe only impediment to his move to the Eagles under Adam Simpson is West Coast finding a suitable deal that satisfies Mitchell.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt means Mitchell is certain to move to the Eagles next year under a one-year playing deal &#8211; possibly with a trigger for a second season &#8211; then a two-season coaching deal.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>MOST POPULAR<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/rowey-bicks\/crows-need-to-budge-on-gibbs-says-matthew-lloyd\"><strong>CROWS NEEDS TO BUDGE ON GIBBS, SAYS MATTHEW LLOYD<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/david-and-will\/kochie-s-un-australian-comments-on-fiveaa\"><strong>DAVID KOCH\u2019S \u201cUN-AUSTRALIAN\u201d COMMENTS ON FIVEAA BREKKY<\/strong><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday morning veteran Hawk Sam Mitchell spoke on Melbourne radio about the possibility he could leave the club and play at West Coast next year. \u201cIf we are going to move, it is probably best for us as a family to do it now rather than later,\u201d Sam said. \u201cThere has been some talk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":17042,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-17041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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