{"id":139337,"date":"2025-09-13T04:18:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T04:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/139337\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T04:18:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T04:18:10","slug":"tom-barrass-opens-up-about-sam-mitchells-key-role-in-recruiting-players-to-hawthorn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/139337\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Barrass opens up about Sam Mitchell&#8217;s key role in recruiting players to Hawthorn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Hawks are through to the preliminary final for the first time in Sam Mitchell\u2019s coaching tenure and their continual activeness in free agency and trade has played a massive part in their success.<\/p>\n<p>Hawthorn defender Tom Barrass joined 3AW Football and opened up about how Mitchell sold Hawthorn to him and other star recruits.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSam is a great educator and a really in-depth thinker,\u201d Barrass said on 3AW Football.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Press PLAY to listen to the FULL interview with Tom Barrass on 3AW<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was just having a new person, coming with a new opportunity and sort of saying there is more to learn, there is more to this career and more to life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou don\u2019t win four flags by chance and play a big role in that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Image: Getty\/James Wiltshire<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Hawks are through to the preliminary final for the first time in Sam Mitchell\u2019s coaching tenure and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139338,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,14676,85],"class_list":["post-139337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-football-featured","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}