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
Uno de los problemas mas dificiles en el Rugby moderno es la defensa Rush o Rush defence. El analista de video Nick ...
Analyst Nick Bishop spots some Springbox innovation in the Lions series of games where the pattern of play was both c...
One the most difficult problems for coaches to solve in the modern game is the rush defence. Analyst Nick Bishop loo...
What is the best way to avoid the scrum penalty/reset quicksand, and create usable attacking ball? Analyst Nick Bish...
The pick-and-go is often neglected, at least in field positions outside the opposition 22. Analyst Nick Bishop takes...
The early evidence is that Test rugby is proving to be stubbornly resistant to the 2020 law changes, which were desig...
Defence coach Shaun Edwards has been around the game of Rugby Union for a long time. He has a history of teaching a ...
It may just be the end of an era. The days of the penalty goal as the primary means of scoring in Rugby may be coming...
Following on from last week’s article, Nick takes a look at the different set of refereeing priorities which emerged ...
It is not often that you can say, with confidence, that the UK is leading the world in rugby innovation. It is happe...