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
Analyst Nick Bishop follows on from his emphasis on keeping the ball on the field of play rather than kicking it over...
Analyst Nick Bishop looks at how teams are implementing a more sophisticated exit strategy, one which does not involv...
In the second part of the article, Analyst Nick Bishop looks at what the new emphasis at the tackle area means for th...
There are no new rules at the breakdown, however there have been some significant changes of emphasis, and some tight...
Steven Luatua has become one of the most outstanding technicians in contact work at the ruck in the English Premiersh...
Against the All Blacks in last year’s RWC semi final England only lost two of 20 throws, for a very respectable 90% w...
Depth and ‘Verticality’ principles hold true in contact situations after a tackle has been made as Analyst Nick Bisho...
A lot of these principles of 1-4-4-4-1 make sense in the modern game. Can the principles behind it translate to the ...
Analyst Nick Bishop builds on Dave Ellis a simple back door ‘bending the line’ option to a decision-tree with multipl...
At the start of the 2019 6N tournament Jones predicted the emergence of a ‘new breed of player’ in the evolution of t...