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Have England lost their majority vote on the Lions trip to New Zealand?
Leading analyst Nick Bishop discusses what a difference one week makes. Had the British & Irish Lions squad to Ne...
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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
Breakdown
Ruck or no ruck - that is the question
The recent Six Nations match between England and Italy raised a huge question about the refereeing of contact situati...
News & Opinions
How to attack ‘heads-up’ from scrum
What is heads-up rugby in attack? Leading rugby analyst, Nick Bishop explains this in detail in his latest article.
News & Opinions
How to use ‘gadgets’ at the lineout
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...
Breakdown
How to make yourself an effective ‘jackal’
It is hard to do without a number of specialists in defensive contact in the modern game. With the number of breakdow...
Leadership & Management
Game-planning for natural weaknesses
Sir Graham Henry suggests that a plan can start with the identification of what he calls ‘natural weaknesses’ in the ...
Leadership & Management
Why the Celts are rising again in the European Champions Cup
It appeared to be all over for the Celtic Nations when the Heineken Cup morphed into the European Champions Cup in Oc...
Leadership & Management
Why England are reaching a winning consensus
Dwight D. Eisenhower once defined leadership as “the art of getting someone to do something you want done because he ...
Set Piece
The importance of restarts
With the current trend towards high-scoring games, leading analyst Nick Bishop looks at how own-ball kick-offs have e...
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Defence
Two-stepping your way out of trouble!
How do teams beat aggressive high line-speed defences? Leading analyst Nick Bishop looks at the development of high-...
