Short spoken segment (monologue) from a YouTube video in which the speaker describes Robbie Deans' leadership and team-culture approach. The speaker emphasizes a supportive mindset—rather than punishing team members who struggle, teammates help them recover and "get back on the bus" so the whole team can succeed. The remark uses a dog-on-the-bus metaphor to illustrate collective responsibility for success.
Robbie Deans was amazing at creating awesome culture and theming within the team and to get everybody on board on the same goal. And the mindset was that if you saw someone that wasn't on the bus with us, you know, you wouldn't kick the dog while he was down. You'd get the dog back on the bus. You'd help, you know, help that guy with what, you know, whatever he was going through, whatever he was struggling with, whether mental skills, whatever, we'd all help and get him back on the bus because we had the understanding that everybody had to be on that bus for us to be successful.
