Senior coach John Worsfold says Essendon's coaching succession plan has moved “really quickly” ahead of the 2020 season.

Worsfold will hand the reins over to senior assistant Ben Rutten at the end of the season and he said the transition has been easy so far.

While he is overseeing the entire coaching program, Worsfold has been more than willing to forgo a number of key responsibilities to Rutten including overall team tactics and certain match-day responsibilities.

“It will move a little bit throughout the year of course, but it’s moved really quickly in terms of Ben coaching the actual game plan and match day, because he looks really comfortable and ready to go with it,” Worsfold said on Triple M on Wednesday.

“I haven’t felt the need to say that I need to be addressing the players on match day around ball movement or around our defence, because Ben and (new midfield and team offence coach) Blake (Caracella) have been doing all of that in the pre-season.”

Passing on some key jobs has allowed Worsfold to invest plenty of time into the new-look coaching line-up as they, alongside the playing squad, learn the new tactical intricacies Rutten has added.

“It’s a good position to be in, in that I’m really excited with what Ben’s bringing to the footy club and how he’s going about coaching the game plan.

“Overall, we’ve been working really closely together throughout the pre-season mapping everything out and trying to make sure we have the best possible plan in place to get the players prepared.

“As Ben said, there is a new coaching group, so I’m able to spend some more time with some of our less-experienced coaches and support them.”

Worsfold is the league’s most experienced current coach with 352 games under his belt across his 16-year coaching career at Essendon and West Coast.

Rutten said having constant access to his mentor’s knowledge has given him an opportunity many before him have not been given.

“It’s something that’s not really afforded to new coaches all that often,” Rutten told Triple M.

“It’s certainly a great opportunity, to learn from the most experienced coach in the game and someone with all of his experience has been fantastic.

“It’s been a pretty steep learning curve for me over the last four or five months.”

Emerging midfielder Darcy Parish lauded the pair for how they have handled the transition and said the Bombers are all on board with the way the club is moving forward on the field.

“I think it’s been great, they’re obviously working really well together,” Parish said.

“In the past few years, Woosha’s been trying to really stamp his Essendon brand on us and we’ve been working towards that.

“‘Truck’ has come in and he’s tinkered with a few things, him and ‘Cara’, with our game style and as a collective we’re all on the same page this year and are really working well together.

“(There are) great signs early, but we want to build and keep this consistency up throughout the whole year.”