Geelong’s dual premiership hero Mitch Duncan will join West Coast as an assistant coach immediately after retiring as a player.

The 34-year-old last month announced his decision to call time on his career, following his likely last game in the VFL .

Duncan will not officially hang up the boots until the end of the Cats’ AFL campaign but he has already settled on his next move.

The 305-game veteran will return home to Western Australia to join the Eagles, 7NEWS Perth’s Ryan Daniels reported on Monday night.

The move back to Perth comes despite Duncan previously saying it “would be pretty hard” to leave his adopted hometown.

“Obviously I’ve got pretty solid roots in Geelong; I’ve got four kids and a wife, and the wife’s family, so that would be pretty hard,” he said at the start o

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