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
While a great deal of time is spent, and rightly so, on improving the speed of ball delivery from a ruck, it is just ...
There are always plenty of ongoing debates on lineout defence. Analyst Nick Bishop considers the rationale for each d...
On and off the field, French rugby appears to be in a Renaissance with 2 teams contesting the 2021 Champions cup fina...
The cross-kick (or kick-pass) is a low-risk way of moving the ball from one side of the field to the other in one mov...
At the level of individual technique, some ‘amateur’ techniques which still give added value have been prematurely di...
Against a defence which is still well-organized, one of the most reliable methods of attack is to seek out the so-cal...
The pith of the new trial laws is to reduce the impact of defensive line-speed and the number of bodies in the defens...
Following on from his previous article, Nick details if these articles of rugby law are respected, alongside the requ...
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World Rugby is still wrestling with the issue of what happens, and what should by law happen after a tackle takes pla...
The art of attacking is the art of creating and utilizing space. Pushing the ball ever wider to find the space is the...