Daniel Kerr's time at the Eagles looks over. Source: THERON KIRKMAN / AAP
WEST Coast Eagles coach John Worsfold has revealed that champion on-baller Daniel Kerr is set to retire.
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Kerr, 30, is believed to have told his Eagles teammates on Sunday that he would hang up is boots.
He joins other 2006 Eagles premiership stars Andrew Embley and Adam Selwood who announced retirements from the game late last month and played in send-off games in Perth on Saturday night against Adelaide.
Kerr has not played since the Eagles Round 13 loss to Essendon in Perth when he racked up 19 possessions and looked set to revive his accomplished career that has been riddled with hamstring and knee troubles over the past four seasons.
"He indicated today that he is really not confident in his body holding up at all going into next season," Worsfold told Channel Seven News in Perth.
"Right at this moment we've got to work through all of that and what it means for us as a club and what it means for Daniel.
"At this stage he has lost confidence that he can go possibly on.
"So we've got to look at that (retirement) option."
And an embattled Worsfold indicated for a first time that he might have coached West Coast for a last time.
Worsfold has been Eagles coach for the past 12 seasons and won the premiership in 2006, but has been under siege with declining finals hopes in 2013 and missing the finals this season with just nine wins after being roundly touted as flag contenders this year.
Future ... John Worsfold still hasn't made up his mind. Source: Getty Images
West Coast limped to the end of the season with three successive horror beltings from Geelong, by 11 goals, Collingwood (61 points) and then a humiliating 86-point defeat to Adelaide in Perth on Saturday night.
"I say it with players and it probably goes with coaches, it's always a possibility," Worsfold conceded.
"Right at the moment, I'm still contracted to West Coast until the end of October.
"I'm looking forward to letting our board know some of the lessons that we've learned throughout this year and I will present that to them and we'll keep pushing forward."
Worsfold's future is destined for a presentation of plans for a West Coast finals revival for next season when he meets Eagles board of directors within a fortnight.
Kerr met with Worsfold in Perth on Monday and the star play-maker indicated doubts that his weary knees will tolerate the hectic hurly burly of AFL requirements next season.
Kerr is contracted for 2014, but managed just 11 games this year in another injury-ravaged season and reluctantly decided to hang up his boots
He has played 220 senior games and was twice runner-up to the covet6ed Brownlow Medal in 2005 and 2007.
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