for the West Coast Eagles, achieving 149 wins, 2 draws and 130 losses, for a winning percentage of 53.38%. After the death of a close friend, the coach Phil Walsh in July 2015, Worsford took an assistant coaching role for the Adelaide Crows. Essendon Football Club senior coach (2016-2020) On 5 October 2015, Worsfold was appointed as the senior coach of the Essendon Football Club. He signed a three-year contract, replacing caretaker senior coach Matthew Egan, who replaced James Hird after Hird resigned during the 2015 season. His first season in the 2016 season at the club proved to be a difficult one, with twelve senior players, including then-captain Jobe Watson and vice-captain Dyson Heppell, receiving suspensions for the 2016 season, as a consequence of Essendon's 2013 doping scandal. Due to this, the club finished on the bottom of the ladder for the first time since 1933, and Worsfold claimed his second wooden spoon as a coach. However, he would take the Bombers back to the finals in the 2017 season, where they suffered a 65-point elimination final defeat at the hands of the Sydney Swans at the Sydney Cricket Ground. In the 2018 season Worsfold took Essendon to finish eleventh on the ladder, missing out of the finals with ten wins and twelve losses. In the 2019 season, Worsfold took Essendon back into the finals again, where they were eliminated by his old side the West Coast Eagles in the elimination final. Then at the conclusion of the 2019 season, On 17 September 2019, it was announced that Essendon assistant coach Ben Rutten would succeed Worsfold as the senior coach of at the conclusion of the 2020 season. However in the 2020 season, Essendon's on-field performance under Worsfold, in his final year as senior coach dropped when the club finished thirteenth on the ladder with six wins and ten losses, therefore missing out of the finals. Then at the conclusion of the 2020 season, Worsfold handed over the coaching reins to his assistant coach Rutten as part of the planned transition. Coaching style In an era where most coaches had implemented "the flood" defence by having their players zone back, Worsfold maintained a man-on-man style of game for his West Coast team during the mid-2000s. While this led West Coast to much success in the home and away season, finishing second and first after the home and away rounds