NEW Crows coach Phil Walsh has called on West Coast premiership mentor John Worsfold to review his coaching staff, starting with Saturday’s NAB Challenge clash with Port Adelaide at Football Park.

Worsfold will sit in Walsh’s box during the pre-season closer studying — and offering feedback — on how Walsh and his assistants work together in just their third official pre-season game.

The former West Coast captain and defender will study how Walsh and his team operate before, during and after the game giving invaluable insight on how Walsh can fast track the development of his match-day staff as a group — and as individuals, particularly those such as David Teague who are considered potential AFL senior coaches.

Walsh’s call to Worsfold just six months after forming his first coaching panel highlights how the new Adelaide coach is wasting no time to immediately and quickly improve the Crows.

Worsfold will be in the Crows’ camp answering a request from Walsh as a mentor rather than as the boss of the AFL Coaches Association.

Walsh and Worsfold worked as a partnership at West Coast for five years from 2009 when Walsh left Port Adelaide to be the Eagles’ strategy and innovations coach.

Walsh last year, on returning to the Power, paid credit to Worsfold for further advancing his coaching.

“John Worsfold was a very process-driven person which I think is important in professional sport,” Walsh said last year while reflecting on his time at the Eagles.

“I also learned a lot about how organisations work and how to work in a team, because it’s probably a bigger team at West Coast with lots more people involved. So there were a few different dynamics there for me to learn from there.”

Walsh quipped to The Advertiser that Worsfold may also prove a handy foil as he faces the Port Adelaide fans for the first time since leaving Alberton to become Adelaide’s senior coach.