ANALYSIS: From Gungahlin's grassroots to standout Saint — this is Jack Steele's journey
But doing it where you grew up, and captaining your team against your old side, is something else again.
But since donning the St Kilda jersey, Steele has evolved into one of the league's finest two-way midfielders and leaders.With the Saints' win in Canberra last Friday against the Giants, Steele's team have stamped themselves as serious finals contenders. Jack Steele was no different, drafted as an Academy selection to GWS from Belconnen. Lesser known is the fact that he started his footy days at the Jets in Gungahlin.
Across the country there are clubs that struggle to win each season, let alone each week, and few have battled harder in recent years than the Jets.It's been nearly three years since Gungahlin last won a senior game on either the men's or women's side. They've never made a top-level men's grand final in those 40 years, but had success in some lower men's grades.
Steele's game is somewhat a hybrid of the classic hard-at-it inside midfielder and the classy outside ball user. As a whole, he is maybe the best two-way midfielder in the competition, equally dangerous with and without the ball.As a junior he vacillated between a higher half-forward role and grinding it out in the middle. At AFL level, it took time to blend the two skills together without being pigeon-holed in either.
In past years, Steele was often relied upon to be the best Saint on the field every week. With an aggressive recruiting push in the past couple of years, combined with some stellar drafted talent, that need has lessened. It means the Saints can open up blocking opportunities and attacking pathways for several of his teammates, profiting from more favourable match-ups."It's not for Jack Steele to be our best player each week.
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