Nick Bishop
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About Nick Bishop
Nick has worked as a rugby analyst and advisor to Graham Henry (1999-2002), Mike Ruddock (2004-2006) and latterly Stuart Lancaster (2011-2015). He also worked on the 2001 British & Irish Lions tour to Australia and produced his first rugby book with Graham Henry at the end of the tour. Since then, three more rugby books have followed, all of which of have either been nominated for, or won national sports book awards. The latest is a biography of Phil Larder, the first top Rugby League coach to successfully transfer over to Union. It is entitled “The Iron Curtain”. Nick has also written or contributed to four other books on literature and psychology.
“He is currently writing articles for The Roar and The Rugby Site, and working as a strategy consultant to Stuart Lancaster and the Leinster coaching staff for their European matches.”
Nick Bishop's latest articles
The use of the “spare man” in the backline has been debated since the dawn of the professional era. Using France’s cu...
With two of the world’s best attacking players wearing the No. 9 and No. 10 jerseys, how should France structure thei...
Leinster finished ahead in territory and possession, set more rucks and made more carries than their opponents UBB bu...
The All Blacks lost some of their quintessential identity in the Razor era, as Nick Bishop details, but with Dave Ren...
Ireland maybe in transition but when push came to shove in the red zone, as Nick Bishop details, they were still the ...
Analyst Nick Bishop explains what and how this year’s Six Nations rugby steadily and surprising, moved ahead of its ...
Using Scotland’s outstanding French 6N performance, Nick details how the tactical use of the kicking game works in th...
The high ball contest was going to be cleaner, more straightforwardly man on man contest, and everyone else had to ge...
Rugby is following faithfully in American Football’s footsteps, and it has generated its own versions of ‘misdirectio...
To say that Leinster are playing closer to the line at the breakdown in recent times is an understatement. Leading an...