Glass missed West Coast’s 35-point loss to St Kilda on the weekend and Worsfold said the 29-year-old’s workload would be increased on Thursday.
“The program with Glassy is he won’t do too much today and he’ll do a little bit more running on Thursday", Worsfold said from Subiaco Oval on Tuesday.
“It’s unlikely that we’ll have him for selection this week.
“We’ll see how he is next week. If he feels like he’s a lot better then we’ll get him going next week and see if he’s okay to play (against Geelong).”
However, the coach is confident his full-back’s ailment is not as serious as those which ended the seasons of Dean Cox and Daniel Kerr in 2009.
Worsfold said it was too early to make a call on how serious Glass’ injury was and the club would wait to see how he responds to increased duties this week.
The Eagles have had a horror run with groin injuries in recent seasons, with Cox and Kerr cut down last year with serious abdominal/groin cases and a host of players arriving at the club with lingering osteitis pubis.
“With the younger players we’ve had a lot that have arrived, say with Koby Stevens last year, who had osteitis pubis late in the season,” the coach said.
“That was very similar with guys like (Brad) Ebert, (Chris) Masten, Scott Selwood and (Ben) McKinley, [who] all arrived with those issues.
“But with the older guys like Cox and Kerr and potentially Glass, at this stage, there’s nothing that we can put our finger on to say there’s something causing that.
“We’re looking to see if there is.”
Worsfold said the club would look into AFL records to see if there was a trend League-wide that may explain the increase in groin injuries.
“The AFL get medical records from all clubs, they’re confidential to the AFL, but they can use those figures to give you an indication if there is something increasing throughout the competition,” he said.
“As soon as you get one string of something that you think you might need to look at, we would look at our records.”
