Newly re-signed St Kilda defender Jarryn Geary believes the club currently sits in a ‘healthy’ leadership position, with a balance of wise heads and fresh faces directing the club’s playing group.

As it currently stands, Nick Riewoldt heads a seven-man leadership group, comprised of Geary, Leigh Montagna, Sean Dempster, David Armitage, Maverick Weller and Jack Newnes, highlighting the blend of old and new.

Fresh from signing a new two-year contract extension, which will ensure the 27-year-old remains at the Linen House Centre until at least the end of 2018, Geary indicated the Saints had improved their leadership capacity in recent years, placing a larger emphasis on developing the fresh wave coming through.

“The club’s in a pretty healthy position at the moment. Over the last couple of years we’ve established a pretty strong leadership group and there’s a lot of young boys that are pushing up to be in that group leadership now,” Geary told reporters at a press conference at Seaford on Wednesday morning.

“There’s an emerging leaders camp this week, where there’s about ten or 12 of the young guys going on a pretty gruelling few days of camp so they’ll look to put their hands up to be in the leadership group as well.”

With Riewoldt still away overseas, Geary revealed there had been no real discussion regarding whether the champion forward would pass the captaincy baton on to a new figure. The Bendigo product suggested the decision will likely be left to Riewoldt following his decade of outstanding service in the job.

“We haven’t really sat down and spoke about it, obviously 'Rooey’s' still overseas, so when he comes back I’m sure they’ll have discussions about that,” Geary said.

“The decision will be down to what he wants to do. We have a vote every year and every year ‘Rooey’s’ been the No. 1 man. Unless that changes, I don’t see why he wouldn’t be, but they’ll have that discussion when (the time) it comes.

“He’s obviously been captain for a long time, and a really good one at that, so whoever does takeover is going to have pretty big shoes to fill when the time comes, but I’m not sure when that will be. Hopefully there’s a lot of guys putting their hand up when that time comes.”

Despite gripping the captaincy reigns on a handful of occasions in 2015, Geary says he hasn’t spent much time considering taking up the job on a full-time basis just yet, but is confident the club has worthy candidates when the time comes for Riewoldt to step aside.

“I enjoyed doing it this year; it was a really good experience for me. It’s not something I’ve really thought about too much, in terms of taking over,” he said.

“I’d just like the club to be in a good position where there’s a lot of blokes putting their hands up to be that captain.

“'Armo' did a good job when he got the opportunity throughout the year. Jack Newnes and Mav Weller have been progressing well with their leadership as well and they’re probably going to be around for a little bit longer than 'Armo' or myself.

“So I’m not sure what direction the club will go in, but I know a few blokes that are quite capable of doing it.”