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 Nick’s most recent article, he looked at the chip kick and this week discusses how Beauden Barrett uses the kick-p...
One of the biggest challenges for both sides during the up-coming Lions tour to NZ will be how to find ways to break ...
Most successful rugby teams at professional level are those who emphasize ‘doing the next job’ and passing beyond fai...
Leading analyst Nick Bishop discusses what a difference one week makes. Had the British & Irish Lions squad to Ne...
The recent Six Nations match between England and Italy raised a huge question about the refereeing of contact situati...
What is heads-up rugby in attack? Leading rugby analyst, Nick Bishop explains this in detail in his latest article.
The closer to set-piece a weakness can be pin-pointed, the more likely it is to result in a score. That score could b...
It is hard to do without a number of specialists in defensive contact in the modern game. With the number of breakdow...
Sir Graham Henry suggests that a plan can start with the identification of what he calls ‘natural weaknesses’ in the ...
It appeared to be all over for the Celtic Nations when the Heineken Cup morphed into the European Champions Cup in Oc...