Friendly, great view and company, bright African art, central and secure! We had a crazy water polo coach in Alan Footman and some of my fondest school memories are water polo tours and sessions in which Footie killed us in the pool.‘However, rugby was always the priority for me. The second and more significant one is of a teenager who lived for first and second break and couldn’t wait to get onto the practice field to kick and pass a rugby ball, and if he wasn’t on a rugby field, he was in the pool, swimming or playing water polo.Montgomery, then and now, understood the distance from the pass to the tackle more than he appreciated nouns and adjectives and whatever they taught in mathematics back then. It didn’t matter if I had scored the winning points or made the SA Schools team, my responsibilities and duties remained the same. I know he gets the humour in it because he used to get it at school when I used to tell him the same thing whenever he had to speak to me about my grades.

‘He donates signed Bok kit to help the school raise funds and when in Cape Town, he has always phoned to say hello and see if the school needs him to do a fundraiser or donate anything that can help us. I just liked him and felt I could speak to him and that he would never judge what I had to say.‘When we trained I could ask him questions without feeling stupid and he would give me a rugby explanation if he felt I could have done something better or why my execution of a kick, pass, tackle or move was poor. I was overwhelmed that he would involve me in what was his celebration and he has never lost that quality of always being prepared to honour anyone he feels has played a part in his development or success.’Montgomery played more than 60 games for SACS’ lst XV in three successive seasons, which Perkin believes is a school record, although the inconsistent keeping of documents for records, appearances and points scored means it can’t be verified.

He enjoyed being creative but academics was not his strength, as I am sure he has told you.’Montgomery has never pretended to be anything he is not. I challenged him to show me a few things and I think that encouraged him to think about the game even more. Get your mates back here chatting.Hi Keo… So you are putting a call out to the Night Owls?

If anything, I was more like an older mate and he treated me like that from the age of 16 and has never stopped treating me in this way.‘When he first became professional, I managed his affairs, but quickly realised he needed a specialist in that field but we’ve never lost touch. I am desperate to make up for lost time, especially with my mom and dad, and I will always want to give back to a school that gave me so much.’It is at SACS that Montgomery was taught discipline and to work hard, and while you can sense the hurt and humiliation when he tells of being hung out of a window by a school teacher and embarrassed in front of his class-mates, the tears of a young boy lessened as the teenager thrived and triumphed. He certainly is not your average past pupil.’Perkin adores Montgomery, as a dad to a son and an older brother to a younger sibling. I can’t ever remember him speaking about himself and he really didn’t have to because everyone I knew who had seen HO play spoke about how good he was. The blond rugby star, who was an integral part of the 2008 World Cup-winning team and is now the Boks' kicking coach, married model and body double Tasmin (nee Tobitt… He was a boy in need of an older pal, with a bit more life experience and I think that’s the role I played for him.‘He adored his parents and he talked a lot about his father’s rugby days in Namibia and about his dad’s advice about rugby, but naturally as a boarder who only saw his parents during holidays, he missed the interaction any boy would have with his dad on a day-to-day basis. Reviewed 30 January 2017 via mobile . I knew I was lucky to have a mentor like that but I was as lucky to have a school master in Simon Perkin who allowed the relationship to develop and was never threatened by HO’s influence at training.’Perkin still teaches at SACS and his classroom has all the standard high-school trappings of chairs, desks and that wonderful smell of wood, but it could also be a rugby museum to Montgomery with his exploits in the SACS  No 15 jersey equally prominent in the wall-to-wall classroom display alongside Montgomery, the Springbok.

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