West Coast coach John Worsfold is expected to re-sign with the club West Coast coach John Worsfold is close to re-signing with the club. WEST Coast Eagles coach John Worsfold is on the verge of an announcement that is likely to extend his decorated AFL career beyond this season. Worsfold could reveal within a week that he will continue as Eagles coach with ambitious plans to revitalise an injury-ravaged playing group back into finals as serious premiership contenders next season. The 2006 premiership coach and two-times Eagles flag-winning captain is even understood to be considering a new contract. The length of his extension is unclear. Worsfold, 44, declared on his weekly Channel Seven interview in Perth on Monday night that he had made a decision on his future, but he would advise the club before making any public announcement. It had been widely expected until as recently as about a month back that the revered Eagles great would retire at the end of this season, his 12th as West Coast coach. Worsfold had been tipped to walk away from his coaching and colourful AFL career that started as a relentless and uncompromising defender as an original Eagle back in 1987. The iconic West Coast identity is expected to present his blueprint for success to Eagles board of management before the end of this month with projections over the next two to three seasons with his current playing list and support staff. He is expected to assess the immediate playing futures of ageing premiership stars Darren Glass, Dean Cox, Daniel Kerr, Andrew Embley and Adam Selwood as well as to identify top priority recruiting targets that Worsfold wants injected to bolster Eagles premiership hopes. The time-line heading into Worsfold's presentation to Eagles powerbrokers coincides with chief executive Trevor Nisbett scheduled to depart for the United States with an AFL consortium headed by league boss Andrew Demetriou late this week. Eagles chairman Alan Cransberg has remained defiantly confident that Worsfold would continue as head coach next season. Cransberg declared back in May that he expected Worsfold to remain at the helm. "You always look at results, but I cannot imagine a scenario where he wouldn't be coaching us next year if he wanted to coach us," Cransberg told the Sunday Times and PerthNow in an exclusive interview. Worsfold is believed to have indicated to West Coast heavyweights within the past fortnight that he is keen to continue after considering his future for much of a troubled filled season as the Eagles tumbled from genuine premiership threats to now highly likely to final this year. West Coast was widely touted as serious premiership force before this season but has succumbed to great expectation and an ever mounting injury toll and won just seven while losing nine games and sit 10th and almost certain to miss out on the final eight. West Coast has not beaten a side inside this season's top eight. The Eagles would have to win four and probably even five of their last six engagements that includes a potentially nightmare three successive appointments with power outfits Essendon, Geelong and Collingwood from Rounds 20-22 next month. Worsfold has missed finals just three times in his past 11 seasons at West Coast since taking over in 2002. He substantially rebuilt the Eagles flag hopes in 2011 to finish fourth with a preliminary final loss to eventual premiers Geelong when West Coast had finished last the previous season after three straight years out of September play-offs. He has coached West Coast to 147 wins and 126 losses at a winning ratio of 53.8 per cent and played 209 Eagles games. He was captain when West Coast won historic first flags in 1992 and again in "94 as the first AFL outfit from outside Victoria to win titles.