Carlton turned it on in the second term with eight unanswered goals and skipped out to a 53-point lead early in the third, before West Coast kicked eight of the next nine to get it back to seven points, but the Blues kicked the last five of the match to win by 37 points.
Worsfold has consistently refused to criticise the playing group despite the lack of wins, but his drawn face post-match spoke volumes, and he proceeded to put the acid firmly on the player group.
"[I was] pretty disappointed. In that second quarter, for sure. It's probably the first time I've really questioned whether they were still prepared to keep the fight up," he said.
Despite the fightback after being challenged by the coach at half time, Worsfold was adamant that the effort was still well short of average.
"In the third quarter, I think they played like you would expect a team to go out and play. I don't think they did anything more, they just raised the standard to where the minimum should be.
"It's just errors that are made under no pressure – I think Carlton got their first goal from an unpressured kick between two players that hit the ground and then we got tackled and they kicked a goal.
"Really, there is no excuse for it. There is no excuse when you get back off the mark, turn around and try to kick to a teammate 15 metres away and miss him. Can't hit him."
But Worsfold refused to concede the club was in crisis.
"No, no. We've got injuries, and we're in poor form, and we've got some players who need to lift," he said.
"To me, a crisis would be where there's no direction given to the players, or the players don't want to go down the direction that's been given to them, players don't want to play for the club or the coach.
"I don't think we're in a crisis, no."
