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
In theory, the laws of World Rugby require everyone involved in the tackle on offence or defence to move away from th...
“Aggregation of marginal gains… the 1% margin for improvement in everything you do.” Put all those little micro-wins ...
The viability of using decoys on attacking plays has become absolutely essential at all levels of the professional ga...
The women’s game has the virtue of being different in character to the male version of rugby. Analyst Nick Bishop lo...
The first Bledisloe match of 2017 between New Zealand and Australia was decided partly in advance, by selection befor...
The recent series between the New Zealand All Blacks and the British & Irish Lions was one which confounded expec...
The simple answer to the question in the title of the article is $69 million NZ dollars. That is the monetary amount ...
One of the great questions in the build-up to the Test series between New Zealand and the British & Irish Lions w...
Why are teams from New Zealand the best in the world at integrating their forwards into attacks as they develop throu...
Leading analyst, Nick Bishop looks at the use of the pump-fake or double pump as another method of dislocating the Pr...