# Mark Geyer's lawyers to pursue NRL Memes page through the courts
##### By [Sally Rawsthorne](https://www.smh.com.au/by/sally-rawsthorne-h10m4q)
March 5, 2019 — 7.10pm
Lawyers for rugby league great Mark Geyer are threatening to unmask the individual behind the notorious NRL Memes site, which has been posting sex videos of NRL players on Facebook that have subsequently been shared on social media.
The site began publishing videos in January when a video of former Roosters player Dylan Napa went viral, appearing to tell a woman to "Call me Big Papi".
Happier times: Mark Geyer (left) alongside his former Triple M Grill Team colleagues Matthew Johns and Gus Worland.
Mr Geyer said he will sue those behind the Facebook page for falsely identifying his 22-year-old daughter Montana [as participating in the latest video involving Panthers star Tyrone May ](https://www.smh.com.au/sport/nrl/geyer-pursues-legal-action-over-defamatory-material-20190305-p511uy.html).
On Monday night, the page uploaded a screenshot from one of the videos at the centre of the allegations, with the caption: "The bird in the Tyrone May video is Mark Geyer's daughter. Happy days at Penrith."
Mr Geyer's solicitor, Bryden's Lawyers principal Lee Hagipantelis, said the individual or individuals behind the post would have known that it was not her.
"She's a 22-year-old girl who has been, through no fault of her own, dragged into this, they knew it wasn't her," he said.
"The law clearly provides that if you publish defamatory material, then you can be held liable."
Under Australian law, what it published on social media is held to the same standard as traditional media outlets and there have been numerous successful defamation cases over Facebook posts.
While proving who the administrator of a particular Facebook page is can prove challenging - the *Herald* has learnt that page operators create numerous fake accounts to run these pages - Mr Hagipantelis said there were ways to learn who had published the material.
He said they can apply for preliminary discovery of documents identifying the people controlling the Facebook page.
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Stood down: Panthers playmaker Tyrone May.CREDIT:NRL PHOTOS
"You can bring them before the court. It can be difficult, but we know these pages are Australian-based. One man is particularly well known," he said.
On Tuesday, Panthers player Tyrone May, 22, who is at the centre of the latest posting on the site, [was charged under the new revenge porn laws](https://www.smh.com.au/sport/nrl/may-stood-down-by-nrl-after-police-charge-over-sex-tape-scandal-20190305-p511tv.html) with two counts of recording intimate image without consent, and two counts of disseminate image without consent.
The NRL Memes page over the weekend published several sex tapes of Mr May and what police say were women who consented to having sex - but not to being filmed.
NRL Memes responded to the *Herald's* questions about who runs it with a thumbs up emoji, and one blowing a kiss.
The NRL have announced that [Mr Napa will be fined 10 per cent of his salary over the incident](https://www.smh.com.au/sport/nrl/nrl-in-a-bind-over-sex-tapes-20190303-p511g2.html), but he has not been criminally charged and neither has the person who published the video online.
On Tuesday, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said he thought "zero tolerance" was the right approach to sports stars caught up in sexual assault or domestic claims.
"I think honestly, that's what the fans of the codes, being one of them, would want to see as well. Because sport can actually be a powerful tool to help get this message across… But they've got to change their culture to actually carry that message," he said, adding that players accused of a serious crime should not be allowed to play.
