Retired Jarryn Geary

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Manimal_Dunstan said:
I'll be first to admit i thought he was out the door,
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Why?

Just because someone, and most likely his manager trying to pump up his salary, starts a rumour that another club wants him?

How many players who are up for a contract renewal are not rumoured to have other clubs sniffing about?
 

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Smoke_Me_AKipper said:
I'm not going to post sources on a public forum...just take my word for it. I've established some cred on here over the years.

If that isn't good enough for you that's cool :)
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Could you potentially elaborate enough on the contract, just so we know what we could have had from Free Agency compensation?
 
Strahany said:
Could you potentially elaborate enough on the contract, just so we know what we could have had from Free Agency compensation?
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It was a decent amount of money, not sure of the exact amount only that it was significant. I raised it here to answer someone who doubted an offer was on the table...

If you want a guess from me, it would have been a second round pick as compensation....
 
Smoke_Me_AKipper said:
It was a decent amount of money, not sure of the exact amount only that it was significant. I raised it here to answer someone who doubted an offer was on the table...

If you want a guess from me, it would have been a second round pick as compensation....
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Sounds very interesting. Its good to hear that Geary has some recognition from outside of our club.
 
Here's what the 2015 Champion Data Prospectus had to say about Geary:

Playing deeper in defense than ever before, he rated above average for disposals, contested possessions and intercept possessions for a general defender.

From rounds 1-6 he ranked 2nd at the club for intercept possessions and 3rd in the AFL for groundball-gets won in the defensive 50. He also rated elite for pressure applied and averaged the 4th most pressure acts of any player in the AFL.
 
Weights training at the club yesterday.

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From Saturday Feb 21st Intra-club Match

BF Reviews on Geary:
  • "Richo said on Facebook Newnes, Ross, Webster, Shenton, Geary & Fisher were the standouts." joop
  • "Back 6 ( Geary , Delaney , Dempster , Shenton , Fisher , Savage) looked strong and settled round 1" STK2020
  • "Q&A ON FACEBOOK WITH ALAN RICHARDSON:
    Q. Who played well? Who exceeded expectations?

    AR. Newnes, Ross, Webster, Shenton, Geary and Fisher were the standouts." CursingFijian"

  • "#14 Geary looked sharp and played well down back. Is our best option for opposition small forwards." Winners Only
  • "Newnes , Geary , Lee look as though they believe in their ability" Stewart66
  • "fair point!!! although it is jarryn we are talking about. he'd run through a brick wall for our club, match or no match" Defacto
Geary interview post match

http://www.saints.com.au/video/2015-02-21/intra-club-jarryn-geary


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St Kilda defender Jarryn Geary happy to be one of the top dogs
Date: April 4, 2015 - 7:30PM

Daniel Cherny

St Kilda won just four games to claim their first wooden spoon in 14 years, while Geary - having finally established himself as a consistent backman and leader - was struck down with a ruptured ligament in his elbow after round seven and did not play again. Having just crawled to 100 games in his eighth year at the club, it was a bitter pill.

"Purely because of the fact we'd been losing so many games last year," Geary said in the lead-up to his first premiership season game in 11 months against GWS on Sunday.

"Previous times when I'd been injured I'd never really been in that position when we'd been losing. You wanted to be out there because you wanted to try and help."

Geary, 26, might not have expressed such proactive sentiments five years ago, but it was not because he was an altogether foreign face to footy followers. In the Saints' three consecutive top-four seasons of 2008 to 2010, he played 10, 15 and 19 games respectively. He was around the mark in a strong side, but despite those solid hauls could not scrape into the St Kilda team for even one of the side's 10 finals over those three years.

Critics on occasion lashed then Saints coach Ross Lyon for not promoting youngsters, but Geary lays the blame at his own door, believing he had thought the team's senior players would do the dirty work.

"I probably just sat back and watched a little bit, rather than go out and do things that I should have done off my own bat."

Lyon told Geary it was a lack of consistency that was holding him back, and the one-time rookie from Bendigo concurs, pointing to a stretch between rounds 12 and 14 in 2009 when in consecutive weeks his disposal tallies read: 6, 22, 4. "You can't go from that level to that level. Your bad game needs to be a bit closer to what your good game looks like."

Geary broke a leg early in 2011, but after returning from injury he came on in leaps and bounds. Before last year's elbow setback, he had played 56 of the last 59 games, and finished in the top-six of two St Kilda best and fairest counts. This will be his third year in the club's leadership group, a position he takes seriously given the dearth of 23-to-28-year-olds on the Saints list.

"We sort of feel like we're that link between the younger guys and the older guys. We feel pretty comfortable trying to be a shoulder to lean on for the older guys, and for the younger blokes we hope they come to us if they have any issues or need anything."

"Last year, because I wasn't playing I saw a lot more. I took that approach of helping out on game day in terms of going down to the rooms and telling blokes what I've seen and helping them play better and or if they needed a pat on the back.

"You normally have someone who's either quite loud and boisterous as a leader or someone who likes to lead by actions, and I'm sort of in between. If I see something I'll say something and if I think if I need to read through actions I'll do that as well."
 
sammm said:
If he was in the best, why were people saying he should be in the VFL?
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Because they can? I don't know he cops a lot of flack for his disposal but he makes up for his short comings to me. Baker was never super clean but he was universally loved for playing like a less mentally stable Geary.
 
Joop thanks for that. Have copied across here to Geary thread.

joop said:
St. Kilda vs GWS
10 Dylan Shiel (GWS)
4 Jarryn Geary (StK)
4 Jack Steven (StK)
4 Adam Treloar (GWS)
3 Lachie Whitfield (GWS)
2 Shane Savage (StK)
2 Maverick Weller (StK)
1 Cameron McCarthy (GWS)

Coaches votes.
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And one to show the doubters, the coaches gave Geary 4 votes, equal second highest in the match.
 
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