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
As a result of the WR 2020 Breakdown Guidelines, the role of the jackler has changed, so it has attracted quicker, mo...
Nick Bishop looks in more detail at what happened when teams of the same general type played one another, or two side...
The first part of this two-piece survey Nick Bishop researches key stats thrown up over the course of the competition...
Has the the Rush defence puzzle been truly solved? Nick Bishop details the evidence from the recent RWC final.
Can a Kiwi attack handle an all-out Test-level rush defence? In Part 1 of the 2 part analysis, Nick Bishop explains h...
Any team looking to build up solid fundamentals in a contestable kicking strategy, England’s RWC2023 semi final perfo...
Coaches at all levels of the game, and in all sports are always looking for simple, robust solutions that work – the ...
Most number 10’s are either strategist/game-managers or they are instinctive ball-players. Nick Bishop looks at how ...
You do not have to win the lion’s share of collisions in order to play winning attacking rugby., It is still possible...
Nick Bishop details how drop goals like George Ford’s are a simple and risk-free method of keeping the scoreboard tic...