The day Mark Geyer made Paul Kent vomit with a ‘high and late’ shot
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Mark Geyer once went after Paul Kent on the footy field, with serious consequences. Picture: Gregg PorteousSource: News Corp Australia
This may come as no surprise, but Mark Geyer has a temper — and Paul Kent was once on the wrong end of it.
Speaking on The Matty Johns Show podcast, the Newscorp journalist has recalled the time he wrote a column about Geyer, and how the former enforcer sought revenge while playing for Umina in 1994.
At the time, Kent was playing for Ourimbah, and the two of them faced off in a painful confrontation, with grim consequences.
“It wasn’t a tackle, it was a little high, a little late and an elbow behind the ear,” Kent said.
“I wrote a story about him. He was on the way out of Balmain and Penrith were considering taking him.”
Another journalist thought Geyer should go back to Penrith, but Kent said he should be made to play park football for a year as a reminder of how lucky he was to be playing first grade.
The newspaper ran both columns side-by-side, and Geyer didn’t much like what Kent had to say.
Unluckily for Kent, Geyer was forced to play park footy — in his own competition.
“Instead of going to Penrith, where I thought he was going to play, he went to Umina. I was playing at Ourimbah, we played them in six weeks,” he said.
“So I rock up to the game on game day and all the Umina players are going: ‘what have you done to MG, he’s filthy at you’.
“Anyway, we run out, I’m playing fullback, I’m standing back to catch the ball from my front-rower, MG comes out, he’s got water dripping off him everywhere and he’s looking around and finally sees me standing next to the posts, and he goes: ‘you’re f*cking dead’.”
Even Kent’s front-rower, the man who was supposed to protect him, was scared.
“The whole game he’s after me, he finally gets me, gives me a clip, a brawl starts, by the time I get in the dressing room I’m vomiting from concussion,” Kent says.
They were sent off, and back in the sheds it kicks off again.
Kent’s captain Johnny Allanson had another go at MG, who was ‘wrecking’ the dressing sheds next door.
They met in the tunnel and exchanged a few choice words before all the ‘old blokes’ had to pull them off each other.
Steve ‘Blocker’ Roach made a joke, but it could have a vein of truth to it.
“That’s not a tackle, that’s assault!”
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