AFTER re-signing with the club for another two years, West Coast coach John Worsfold appears set to ramp up his youth policy in the final 10 rounds of the season. 
 
Worsfold put pen to paper on Friday morning, giving him the opportunity to equal Mick Malthouse's record 10-year reign.

The premiership coach now has a clear aim to return West Coast to the finals by the second year of his extension, 2011, and he says there may be seasoned players that are sacrificed in the process.
 
"We've got some very good experienced and premiership players that aren't currently playing in our team," Worsfold said on Friday afternoon. 
 
"We could easily bolster the team by bringing them in, but we have got a strategy [to develop young players].
 
"There are going to be some players that miss out when we give some of the new young guns the chance to show what they've got."
 
Premiership players Mark Seaby, Chad Fletcher and Ash Hansen have all been squeezed out of the side in recent weeks.
 
Despite Dean Cox's absence, young ruckman Nic Naitanui was preferred to Seaby for tomorrow night's clash with Hawthorn, while tall forwards Josh Kennedy and Mitch Brown have taken Hansen's position.

First-year midfielders Tom Swift and Adam Cockie have both been given opportunities this season, while second-year players Chris Masten, Scott Selwood and Brad Ebert seem to have locked themselves into the side.
 
Worsfold said he hadn't expected to push so many young players into the side this season, but building for the future would be a big focus of the last 10 rounds. 
 
"The names in our midfield don't compare with the guys that were running around there in 2006 yet, but let's have a look at it in two or three year's time and then start to compare some of the names. I think we'll start to match up pretty well by then," the coach said.
 
Worsfold said he had no doubt he would do a very good job with the club's developing list and said the fact his board looked at all of its options only reinforced his confidence.  

"They obviously had options," he said. "I don't assess all the options, I look at the job I believe I can do and I've got no doubt that I can lead the club in the direction they want to go and as quickly as they want to get there.

"I'm looking forward to that challenge."
 
Captain Darren Glass said Worsfold's reappointment was a great result for the club.
 
Chairman Mark Barnaba, chief executive Trevor Nisbett and key members of Worsfold's football department were also on hand for the announcement.
 
Worsfold has led West Coast to the finals in six of his seven completed seasons in charge – including two grand finals and the 2006 premiership – and has a win/loss record of 97-79.