Quote ="lionarmour87"RL Players are physically stronger than most members of the public and their Strength and fitness are the tools of their trade and tradesmen put away their tools once the work shift is done .even if they are not the aggressor they should not abuse their fitness .Zak is a great player to watch I hope he sorts himself out'"
One of my brother-in-laws was a professional boxer (fought at middleweight in the same era as Herol Graham), his coach at the gym took him from being a young kid who needed a direction for his aggression to a professional boxer who earned a living for a couple of years at the sport and during the whole of that time the one message that was hammered through their skulls was that you are being taught some lethal lessons which simply don't get used outside of the ring, if he'd got into a fight on a Friday night out he'd have been sacked, simple as that.
After his fighting career he worked on and off on the doors of clubs and still never used his fists, even getting stabbed twice by "customers" and you'll find this very often with ex-pro boxers, they don't like to talk about their careers, aren't openly aggressive and have a control mechanism that stops them getting involved in those stupid Friday night rucks, there is a philosophy about boxing (and other martial arts) that maybe needs to be taught to rugby players too.
