CONSIDERING West Coast's recent history of fading in thelast term, coach John Worsfold admitted he was relieved just to get Fridaynight's semi-final into extra time.

"Relief [was how I felt], because we were behind untilwe scored that point," a remarkably sanguine Worsfold said in thepost-match media conference.

"[Prior to extra time] I just explained to [the players] what the rules are,so they're clear on what was going to happen. Then hopefully give them theright moves to make and we didn't do that. It was an even roll-of-the-dice, itfelt as though it was going to be 50-50 in that last 10 minutes.

"They were running reasonably well, but maybe I wasjust more hoping that than really knowing it, I don't know.

"But I certainly couldn't have asked for them to tryany harder."

Worsfold defended the decision to take both Darren Glass andDean Cox off in time-on of the third term, during which time the Pies kickedthree goals and brought the gap back to just four points.

"Glass had done a power of work and he was obviously goingto have a lot of work to do in the second half, so we elected to give him arest.

"And Cox the same – Cox doesn't play every minute ofevery game, he has to come off at some stage, and they did it when Cox was inthe middle as well. At different parts of the quarter, they got the ball outand kicked goals, I thought that was a disappointing part of the night.

"It was probably more so that [Anthony] Rocca kickedtwo when Glass was off him for that three-minute period and that hurt us."

Worsfold admitted his team was banged up and it hurt them infinal quarters.

"We've been going pretty well, and then giving upleads, and then giving up games. It's too hard to measure how some of the sorebodies, or the workload that Tyson Stenglein's had to carry – and [Matt]Priddis – since [Chris] Judd, [Daniel] Kerr and [Ben] Cousins haven't beenavailable.

"It's a massive workload, [I'm] very proud of the waythey've gone about it.

"Maybe it took its toll."