Mark Geyer may have played his final State of Origin match more than three decades ago but he has never forgotten the feeling. A handful of minutes left on the clock, a razor-thin margin on the scoreboard and the overwhelming pressure that comes with knowing only one team will walk off the field victorious.
“It’s immense,” the former NSW hard man says of “the close ones”, those Origin thrillers hanging in the balance moments before full-time. “No matter what you’re playing, whether it’s Origin, club footy or Test matches, there is a lot more anxiety the closer the score is late in the game.”
