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
Will the All Black selectors follow Wales coach Warren Gatland’s very successful approach and field 2 No 7s in the lo...
Backs can help the forwards in the tasks that used to belong solely to the pack – but only if they understand what th...
Arguably the biggest change in Rugby’s professional era occurred when the game started to import defensive coaches fr...
Warren Gatland’s knowledge of the game in the UK and Ireland is anything but one-sided. He has coached in Ireland, W...
The ‘libero’ is an evocative term in the Soccer vocabulary. It describes the free role played from a defensive positi...
Ireland’s Joe Schmidt already coaches with the same values as his All Black counterparts, Sir Graham Henry and Steve ...
It is probably no accident that the teams with Farrell-coached defences only lost two of the six Tests they played ag...
The perception of ‘negative play’ in rugby is often associated with kicking the ball. The idea that a team which can ...
Defence in the modern game is built around the speed at which the defensive line can move up and mount pressure on it...
The offload can be one of the most exciting and rewarding skills in the game of Rugby Union. Analyst Nick Bishop exp...