Percival Colin "Percy" Montgomery (born 15 March 1974 in Walvis Bay, Cape Province, South Africa (now Walvis Bay, Namibia)) is a rugby union player who currently plays as a fullback for the French Top 14 side Perpignan. He holds the all-time records for both caps and points for South Africa's national team, also known as the Springboks. He played the early part of his South African domestic career for Western Province in the Currie Cup and the Stormers in Super Rugby; after a mid-career stint in Wales, he returned to South Africa to play for the Natal Sharks in the Currie Cup and the Sharks in Super Rugby. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... is the 74th day of the year (75th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the 1974 Gregorian calendar. ... 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He is regarded as one of the finest goal kickers in the game. Montgomery showed a great deal more maturity and professionalism during his second stint with the Springbok squad under Jake White. This was exemplified in the 2007 Rugby World Cup Final, when he was illegally pushed into a cameraman behind the try area by an England player, and impacted the camera at speed.^{[citation needed]} He just shrugged off the pain and continued to play, and later that evening eventually lifted the Webb Ellis Trophy. Despite his shortcomings on the field, Montgomery remains a South African media favourite, and he was nominated for numerous media-adjudicated awards in the South African 2007 season.^{[citation needed]}

Montgomery played for Western Province and the Stormers before moving to Wales in 2002 to join Newport RFC, and joined the Newport Gwent Dragons after the 2003 reorganisation of Welsh rugby into a regional setup. At the end of the 2004-2005 Northern Hemisphere season, he returned to play in South Africa. Official website www. ... The Newport Gwent Dragons (Welsh: Dreigiau Gwent Casnewydd) are a Rugby Union team from Wales. ...

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On the 14th of September 2007, Montgomery reached two major milestones in the Boks' second 2007 Rugby World Cup pool match against England. He became the first Springbok to score 800 Test points and, more significantly, he equalled Joost van der Westhuizen as the most-capped Springbok with his 89th appearance. He took sole possession of the Springboks caps record on 22nd September against Tonga. He was the leading point scorer in the 2007 Rugby World Cup, playing a key role in the Boks' successful march to the Webb Ellis Cup. Montgomery's 873 Test points give him well over twice as many points as the player in second place on the all-time Springboks points list, Naas Botha, who played in only 28 Tests compared to Montgomery's 94, since most of his prime years were in South Africa's era of isolation from world rugby. Pool A of the 2007 Rugby World Cup began on 8 September and is scheduled to be completed on 30 September . ... First international (also the worlds first)  Scotland 4–1 England  (27 March 1871) Largest win  England 134–0 Romania  (17 November 2001) Worst defeat  Australia 76–0 England  (6 June 1998) World Cup Appearances 6 (First in 1987) Best result Champions, 2003 The England national rugby union team represents... Joost van der Westhuizen (born 20 February 1971) is a former South African rugby union player who was the Springboks first choice scrum half in the late 1990s. ... The 2007 Rugby World Cup is the sixth Rugby World Cup, a quadrennial international rugby union world championship inaugurated in 1987. ... The Webb Ellis Cup. ... This is a list of the leading scorers in Rugby union Test matches. ... Hendrik Egnatius Botha, commonly known as Naas Botha (born 27 February 1958) is a Northern Transvaal and Springboks former Rugby Union player. ...

On the 13th of May 2003 while playing for Newport, Montgomery was sent off for pushing a touch judge to the ground, and was later heavily fined and given a two-year ban, with 18 months suspended, for the offence of "assaulting a match official".^[1] He consequently missed the 2003 Rugby World Cup and returned to play in Wales in early December 2003.^[2] The 2003 Rugby World Cup was the fifth rugby union world cup. ...

The Australian Fox TV show Inside Rugby gives a weekly award entitled 'The Percy' to the player who makes the worst play on the field during that week's rugby.^{[citation needed]} This is a reference to Percy's somewhat enigmatic and erratic early career where he could do something brilliant and then something woeful in the same match.^{[citation needed]} There is also an 'anti-Percy' award for the best play, an award the man himself has even taken. It is somewhat tongue-in-cheek that almost all Australian rugby fans acknowledge he has proven himself a fine footballer.^{[citation needed]} South African supporters are generally less forgiving.^{[citation needed]}

He left Wales to join the Sharks for the 2006 Super 14 where he played fullback.

For the 2007-2008 season, he signed for the French Top 14 club USA Perpignan and moved to France after the World Cup.

References

1. ^ Wyn Griffiths: "Rugby Union: Montgomery suspended for pushing touch judge." The Independent, London, Jun 4, 2003.
2. ^ "Montgomery Returns." European Rugby Cup website, 5 December 2003.

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