Retired Jarryn Geary

[George]

Great start for the captain. Must be close to a career high 27 touches?

Accurate by foot too.

Close!

He had 34 disposals in that drubbing we gave Fremantle in Milne, Blake, and Kosi's farewell game.

Joey and Stoov had 47 each that day too - club records at the time.

 

[Brains Trust66]

St Kilda captain Jarryn Geary has said his team needs to get back to playing ‘Saints footy’ if they wish to achieve more consistent, on-field performances.

The game style, based on a high-pressure contest game, was missing in St Kilda’s Good Friday loss to North Melbourne.


“We didn’t execute it [Saints footy] because we like to base our game on the contest and if you lose [the contest] by 31, it’s not Saints footy,” Geary told media at RSEA Park on Monday.

“We’ve got to get back to playing a contested, put-your-body-on-the-line type of football.

“The key message is that we’re really disappointed with the way we performed, but now it’s about what we’re going to do about it. We’re one-and-one, it’s round two and there’s a lot of water to go under the bridge.

“You can’t dwell on it otherwise you’ll get consumed by the game, and this one was a brutal one. We had some positive performances the week before, but were inconsistent again on Friday, which has been a bit of an issue for us for a while.

“We’ve spoken about consistency for a number of years now, it’s our biggest challenge, and you can’t do anything else but train it, try and improve. That’s my message to the playing group, that’s the coaches message – do something about it.”

After an impromptu all-team meeting on Saturday morning to close the chapter on the disappointing 52-point loss, Geary said the group will now focus their energy on this weekend’s home game against the Crows.

“You’ve got to move on so quickly. We performed relatively positively against the Lions the week before, but on the weekend we performed poorly, so you’ve got to look at the way you’re preparing and how you can emulate some of those positive performances more often,” Geary said.

“All AFL teams are good; it’s an even competition. It doesn’t matter who you play, you just have to rock up every week with an appetite to compete and we’ve got to do that this week and get after our contests.”

The skipper said he understood the frustration of passionate Saints fans given their performance, but he hoped he’d still see them at Etihad Stadium on Saturday when the team get a chance to redeem themselves.

“You let your fans down when you perform that way. They expect better from us and they deserve better.

"I wouldn’t want to rock up to a game and see the way we performed for our fans either. You can understand the disappointment, but all I can say is they’ve stuck with us for a long time and we’d encourage them to keep sticking by us.

“Hopefully going forward we can give them more things to smile about and fewer things to get angry at.”


Go Sainters.

 

[George]

Jarryn Geary Round 2 vs North Melbourne:

8 kicks, 17 handballs (25 disp), 6 marks, 4 tackles.

 

[George]

Gears in the Media - Round 2:

St.Kilda Workhorse of the Week: http://www.saints.com.au/video/2018-04-03/rsea-workhorse-of-the-week-round-2
"We need to play Saints footy"

 

[George]

Jarryn Geary Round 3 vs Adelaide:

6 kicks, 7 handballs (13 disp), 2 marks, 2 tackles, 1 goal

 

[George]

Jarryn Geary Round 4 vs Geelong;

17 kicks, 9 handballs (26 disp), 4 marks, 3 tackles, 1 behind
Sainter of the Day

 

[George]

Jarryn Geary Round 5 vs GWS:

8 kicks, 6 handballs (14 disp), 3 marks, 2 tackles

 

[George]

Jarryn Geary Round 6 vs Hawthorn:

11 kicks, 10 handballs (21 disp), 1 mark, 3 tackles

 

[Brains Trust66]

I'm not looking to fill his shoes, I'm not as good a player as Nick
Jarryn Geary on Nick Riewoldt.
JARRYN Geary still seeks the guidance of former club captain Nick Riewoldt, but says he's not trying to emulate the St Kilda great's leadership style.

Geary took over as skipper from Riewoldt for the 2017 season. With just one win and a draw from the opening six rounds, the 16th-placed Saints have been unable to meet pre-season expectations of a more productive 2018 campaign.


Speaking on SEN on Friday morning, Geary says he's looking to steer the Saints up the ladder in his own style.

"I'm not trying to emulate (Riewoldt) at all, I'm trying to be my own self and my own leader," Geary said.

"I've had great conversations with Nick over the last two or three years when there was an indication I was going to take over from him.

"He has been a great mentor for me, someone who I used a lot last year and someone who I continue to have conversations with now.

"I'm not looking to fill his shoes, I'm not as good a player as Nick, and he led in his own way.

"I'm just hoping I'm leading in my own way, and at the moment with the team, we aren't consistently performing. That's a reflection on myself as well. I put myself in the same category as the team."

The 29-year-old says he has a new perspective on the game after spending the past 10 seasons mainly concentrating on his own performance.

"You do think about footy a lot more, you try to think about the psyche of the other players and where they're at mentally, and how you can help them get out of the form slump we are in," Geary said.

"You do think about footy a lot more than when you are just a normal player rocking up on Saturday trying to perform."


Go Saints

 

[Brains Trust66]

GAMES PLAYED
169


KICKS
8.9
AVERAGE


HANDBALLS
7.6
ABOVE AVG


MARKS
3.9
AVERAGE


TACKLES
2.6
AVERAGE


RATING
320.2


Go Saints

 

[George]

Jarryn Geary Round 7 vs Melbourne:

8 kicks, 10 handballs (18 disp), 1 mark, 2 tackles

 

[JG22]

Jarryn Geary Round 7 vs Melbourne:

8 kicks, 10 handballs (18 disp), 1 mark, 2 tackles

Wow, second photo must be Gears giving his good mate JB a spray after dropping that mark prior to Websters brilliant spoil. Hard to question Geary as a leader.

 

[George]

Jarryn Geary Round 8 vs Fremantle:

5 kicks, 5 handballs (10 disp), 1 mark, 1 tackle, 1 goal

 

[George]

Jarryn Geary Round 9 vs Collingwood:

8 kicks, 15 handballs (23 disp), 3 marks, 3 tackles

 

[George]

Jarryn Geary Round 10 vs Richmond:

14 kicks, 18 handballs (32 disp), 10 marks, 5 tackles

 

[George]

Jarryn Geary Round 11 vs West Coast:

4 kicks, 6 handballs (10 disp), 2 marks, 2 tackles

*Left calf injury, may miss multiple weeks*

 

[George]

Jarryn Geary Round 12 vs Sydney: Did not play (Injured).

 

[George]

Jarryn Geary Round 13 vs Gold Coast: Did not play (Injured).

 

[Brains Trust66]

Jarryn back for the Melbourne game.


Go Saints

 

[George]

Jarryn Geary Round 15 vs Melbourne:

11 kicks, 14 handballs (25 disp), 3 marks, 1 tackle

 

[George]

Jarryn Geary Round 16 vs Port Adelaide:

9 kicks, 9 handballs (18 disp), 4 marks, 1 tackle

 

[Brains Trust66]

Played well against Carlton with 19 disposals.


Go Saints

 

[George]

Jarryn Geary Round 17 vs Carlton:

9 kicks, 10 handballs (19 disp), 4 marks, 3 tackles

 

[George]

Team first for Saints' skipper Jarryn Geary as he prepares for Maddie's Match

St Kilda captain Jarryn Geary is not fazed that the club has indicated it would be open to recruiting a senior player to support the leadership group and the young list.

He said as long as the club did its due diligence and targeted the right type of player he was happy to support any move to improve their list.

https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl...pares-for-maddie-s-match-20180718-p4zs7z.html

 

[Brains Trust66]

Jarryn had 21 disposals and 5 tackles as he led the team against Richmond .


Go Saints