By JON NEWCOMBE

AFTER his career hit an all-time low at Bath, Freddie Burns says playing in Japan’s Second Division helped him grow as a player and a person and move on from his troubled stay at The Rec.
Burns reassessed what was important to him while playing alongside forklift drivers and officer workers for Shokki Shuttles and has come back to England, and a second spell with Leicester, enriched by the experience.
No longer does he fret about player ratings in The Rugby Paper on a Sunday or the views of “some numpty” on social media all too ready to remind him o...