West Coast coach John Worsfold has admitted his club's pride will take a battering if it wins its first wooden spoon this season.

The Eagles have never finished last in the competition, despite coming close in 1989, and have only missed the finals four times in 21 seasons of AFL football.

With two wins to its name, though, West Coast is currently in 15th, less than half a per cent above last-placed Melbourne, and the dreaded spoon has become a real possibility for the 2006 premiers.

But, while Worsfold acknowledged it would be an inglorious addition to the club's history, he added that last-place would be no more disappointing than finishing in ninth position on the ladder.

"It's not going to have any impact next year on us going up," said Worsfold on Wednesday. "(For) you don't start on minus eight because you've won the wooden spoon."

"That's one of the bonuses, if there is one, and you do win a trophy for finishing on the bottom, which is the first pick," he added.

"It's more pride that's what's at stake, it's probably what you're asking, how much will it hurt and it'll hurt."

"It'll be disappointing, but not a lot more disappointing than finishing ninth and missing out on the finals because that's what you're about, you want to play in the finals and if you're not in the finals, you're below average and this year's been a below average year for us."

The Eagles' chances of avoiding last have not been helped by scans revealing that skipper Darren Glass has a slight quadriceps strain and is in some doubt for this Saturday's clash with an in-form St Kilda.

Worsfold, though, said there was a good chance Glass would line up on Saints spearhead Nick Riewoldt for the skipper played out last weekend's loss to the Lions with the injury.

But the coach added he would be taking no chances with the champion defender.

"If there's a higher risk of him tearing it then we won't play him, even if he feels as though he might be able to get through, we've got to read the risk and we'll do that," Worsfold said.

"But we really won't know that until the last minute, so we'll have a look at how he feels tonight and we'll either make a call (then) ... or we'll give him that extra time, but that will be decided tomorrow."