In a horror night for the club Adam Selwood was taken to hospital before half time after being struck in the throat and the club suffered its second worst loss in its history.
It was also revealed Beau Waters copped a season ending shoulder injury playing for Claremont in the WAFL. But Worsfold was steadfast in his belief the club was on the right track.
"It doesn't shake my belief at all - all it does is gives us good teaching points," Worsfold said at his post match press conference.
"[The players'] belief is in working hard to come good and be a premiership winning side.
"Confidence is about believing in what you want to do, and we believe in what we want to do, and our focus will be on becoming a premiership winning side and that will not be dented at all.
"So therefore our confidence on what we want to work on and where we want to is full steam ahead."
Worsfold conceded the future looks a long way off, and his side had few winners against a rampaging Geelong, led by superstar Gary Ablett (37 possesions and two goals).
But the coach said there was plenty his side could learn after running into the competition benchmark at its devastating best – particularly how to use the ball efficiently.
"That gives us something to measure ourselves against and to work on," he said.
"They've learnt about tonight, I've already asked them, they've given me some great feedback on things we would like to work on.
"That's the difference in the teams: their ball use under pressure, because as much as they didn't look under pressure tonight, that's just because they were so good."
Worsfold drew on his own playing career to show sides can bounce back quickly after monumental defeats, and said the sweetness of a premiership could only be savoured after enduring nights such as this.
"The toughness of this elite competition is what we're all excited about being involved in. You get casualties and you get bad days," he said.
"The great thing is, that's why winning premierships is so special, if you didn't go through these things you'd win a premiership and you wouldn't have a celebration.
"I played in a game where we kicked one goal, in 1989, two years later played in a grand final and three years later we won a premiership.
"So my experience tells me that teams that have got good character can turn things around very quickly, learn from them and become top sides very quickly. That's my focus."
