Whether he's jet-boating or running drills, the new Wallabies coach is an individualist and a high achiever, writes Rupert Guinness.
They can always tell when Robbie Deans has the urge. The sight of his jet boat sitting in its trailer outside the Canterbury Crusaders training ground at Rugby Park, St Albans in Christchurch is the give-away.
The players and staff don't need to guess what Deans plans to do on his lunch break. He will drive 10 kilometres to the Waimakariri River with his 14-foot V6 boat in tow, and then release the tension of his job by launching it into the shallow waters for a high-velocity 90kmh burst deep into the valley.
"It's a release, not so much the adrenalin. It gets you into places that will take a lot longer any other way. They are great spots and generally out of cell-phone range," the soon-to-be Wallabies coach told The Herald.
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