All Blacks captain Richie McCaw holds the William Webb Ellis Cup aloft after victory at Eden Park in 2011. Photo / Photosport
Former All Blacks captain Richie McCaw has shared his diary entry from the day he helped his team win the 2011 Rugby World Cup.
Ten years on from an evening at Auckland's Eden Park, when the country held itself in a collective crossing of every finger and toe and breath
for an agonising 80 minutes as the side ground its way to an 8-7 defeat of France, McCaw posted the timely piece of nostalgia on his social media pages.
"Ten years ago since the Rugby World Cup Final and I still remember it like it was yesterday," McCaw wrote, before going on to share a rare insight into the mind of an All Black captain and game-changing flanker.
"Here were the words I wrote on game day. These are the same words I wrote every week but there's no doubt there was a lot more at stake for this test match."
The image McCaw posted accompanying the post contains hand-written notes about the approach he would take to the match; a mix of the tactical and technical, as well as how to deal with the emotions that were bound to flow in front of more than 60,000 entranced fans.
