He's been criticised about his lack of flexibility in the past. I remember around our premiership years, a lot of teams would play a spare man behind the ball, assuming our mids would win it and bomb it forward. Woosha would always man those spare men up as quickly as possible and have us play 1 on 1 all over the ground, with an emphasis being on winning more contests.
I remember games at the point would be with us kicking into a forward line with like 24 players in it, unable to get clear shots because we had no players who could take a contested mark and there was no room for small forwards at all. Games ended up with us easily winning time inside 50 but kicking heaps of behinds. The press wasn't as good in those days so we'd leak out more goals on the rebound than teams do these days but this won us a flag back in the day.
After that I think teams realised we wanted to play 1 on 1 so much and came to the conclusion that they could manipulate match ups to suit them. So we ended up with our guns being played close and having to win contests to get the ball (and then disposing under pressure), while our crabs were given time and space and encouraged to kick and run against oppositions skilled players, who'd always have more impact. Needless to say this didn't end up going well for us, we quickly became known as the least skilled team in the competition and we ended up going through a period where we went 16-50 between 2008-2010.
That was probably the first time Worsfold's job came under serious pressure and I remember when we re-invented himself in 2011 that I thought "Lucky we gave him a second chance". Anyway, it was the press in 2011 which saw us shoot up the ladder. Obviously this was a lot more of a space zoning thing, much like football today, and it shows that Woosh was willing to change his philosophy, although he'd gotten to the stage where he had to. I guess it also shows that he's not really a stranger to how football is played today (Besides a few tricky difference I can't see much difference between our current "web" and the zone Worsfold coached in 2011-2013).
With regards to his firing - 2013 was a strange season for us. I don't know what happened first but either the players stopped believing in Worsfold or he became distracted as **** and didn't care. We had an alright season but, to me, the team was uncharacteristically self entitled. I know that's a long bow to draw but, yeah, I just felt we had so many arrogant players not doing much selflessly. Worsfold also got skinnier and people speculated he was sick or that he was stressed about a family problem. Since he'd kind of lost the players and because of the 2008 - 2010 debacle it just felt his time was up. I think we cunningly dressed up his sacking as a mutual decision and that was that.