{"id":30344,"date":"2016-11-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/sam-mitchell-s-west-coast-surprise\/"},"modified":"2016-11-13T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-11-13T00:00:00","slug":"sam-mitchell-s-west-coast-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/sam-mitchell-s-west-coast-surprise\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Mitchell\u2019s West Coast surprise"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Sam Mitchell says he was shocked when coach Alastair Clarkson floated the possibility of his move to the West Coast Eagles.<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cClarko came over to my place,\u201d Sam tells the FIVEAA sports show\u2026 \u201che came over on the day of the Brownlow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[It\u2019s] Etched in my mind quite vividly now. Just a normal sort of a chat, I thought, then he suggested would I be interested.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>LISTEN HERE:<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"no\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/292513497&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe knew that I had a good relationship with Simmo [West Coast coach Adam Simpson] and that maybe I would come and coach over here in Perth one day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe said would you like to go a bit earlier and start that sooner rather than later? 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