ON HOLD: John Worsfold and West Coast will wait until the end of the season to discuss the coach's contract. Picture: Daniel Wilkins Source: PerthNow
WEST Coast has delayed contract negotiations with coach John Worsfold until the end of the season.
Worsfold's current two-year deal runs out after 2013 and he and club chairman Alan Cransberg have agreed to delay talks over a new contract until the season ends.
In an exclusive interview with The Sunday Times, Worsfold:
- Believes Mick Malthouse will coach better than ever this season at Carlton and that it would have been a tragedy if the 59-year-old was lost to coaching;
- Is confident veteran midfielder Daniel Kerr will again go close to playing every game this season, despite off-season knee surgery;
- Supports the AFL capping interchange rotations and that players will have little trouble learning to adapt; and
- Thinks tanking remains a grey area in football after the penalties given to Melbourne this week.
Worsfold, who did not sign his last deal until well after the Eagles' fairytale 2011 campaign finished, said both parties were happy to delay negotiations.
"For where I am now, I think it's important for me and for the footy club just to concentrate on this season and then make a mutual decision at the end of the year," he said.
West Coast's favourite son has not been given a minimum requirement for earning a new contract, but the Eagles are firmly in premiership mode and club chiefs expect a top-four finish after last year's semi-final exit at the hands of Collingwood at the MCG.
Worsfold, 44, is West Coast's longest-serving captain and coach after breaking Malthouse's club games record last season.
The dual-premiership captain and 2006 premiership coach has been at the helm for 259 matches, the longest continuous streak of any current coach.
Malthouse (Carlton) and Kevin Sheedy (Greater Western Sydney) both had breaks before starting their current coaching jobs.
Worsfold welcomed the return of his former coach Malthouse to AFL coaching ranks following a year in the media.
The West Coast legends will go head-to-head when the Eagles take on the Blues in a Saturday night blockbuster at Patersons Stadium in Round 4.
Malthouse, who left Collingwood after being replaced by Nathan Buckley as part of president Eddie McGuire's succession plan, will coach Carlton for the first time in today's NAB Cup clashes against Sydney and GWS.
"I thought Mick was coaching really well at Collingwood at the end of his career there and I think he's at the peak of his game and probably even more so with a year off," Worsfold said.
"I think it would be a tragedy if he wasn't coaching in the AFL for what he's got to deliver."
Worsfold threw his support behind the league's interchange cap trial, with teams to be allowed 20 rotations per quarter from next weekend's Round 2 of the NAB Cup, and the potential introduction of a cap for the 2014 regular season.
The AFL informed clubs on Friday that they would be allowed an additional two substitute players in the NAB Cup, meaning teams will start with three interchange players and three subs, but the trial of 80 rotations will remain.
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