JOHN Worsfold remains confident he will be coaching West Coast next season, despite casting doubts on his future after Friday night’s loss to Collingwood.

On a day when another Eagles premiership player, Andrew Embley, announced his retirement, Worsfold said he had not considered the round 23 match against Adelaide might be his last as West Coast coach.

"No I haven't," Worsfold said.

The veteran coach, in his 12^th year at the helm, was then asked how he would feel if it was his last game in charge.

"[If it is] I've read the play wrong," Worsfold said.

The out-of-contract coach is due to meet with the Eagles’ board in the next fortnight to present his review of the year and his plan for 2014.

Worsfold was confident last week that he would be re-appointed, with his preference for a two-year deal, but does not believe it is simply a case of presenting to the board and being re-signed on the spot.

"What the board expect, or would like to hear and see, and what I deliver need to be pretty close together or the board may have a different direction in mind," he said.

Despite West Coast still having a mathematical possibility of reaching the finals following Essendon's sanctions, Worsfold is already looking towards next year following a year of underachievement from a team that was highly-fancied for the premiership.

The Eagles sit 13^th on the ladder with just nine wins for the season on the back of a high injury toll and plenty of poor performances.

Worsfold believes there are things he would have have done differently this season.

"There's a couple of things that I would probably adjust a bit," he said.

"I'll come across more things as we go through.

"It's come from the early part of our review, what the balance of our pre-season looks like.

"We've got injuries. Does the make-up of our pre-season, how much collision work we do in December or November, affect how well our bodies cope throughout the whole year?"

"At this stage, this pre-season we'll have a different balance than what we did last year."

Chris Masten revealed on Monday that Worsfold had told the playing group that players were playing for their careers on Saturday night against Adelaide.

Worsfold said certain players had let themselves down over the past two weeks.

"Some of their performances over the past fortnight, they put their spot in the team at risk," Worsfold said.

"There are only a certain number of players out of contract; some are already contracted.

"All of that plays out over the next few weeks, whenever the first list lodgement is, all of the final decisions will be made and you have already seen three retirements."