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
However rare the genuinely ambidextrous may be, it is still important for rugby players at all levels to cultivate th...
Nick Bishop balances the Exit Strategy ledger outlining the exiting in the case the All Blacks dominate their exit st...
Law changes frequently have repercussions, or send out impact ripples well beyond the original intention – for better...
The solution is to drop body-height quickly and dramatically, and get at least one knee to the ground immediately. Ni...
Nick Bishop highlights how the new law-trial requiring the defending scrum-half to drop back rather than chase up bey...
Innovation can be the genuine discovery of something completely new, but far more often it represents the improvement...
Fine-tuning your own exit strategy, and pressurizing the exit strategy of the opposition is the most reliable way of ...
Rugby fashions, like fashions in other areas of life, often work in cycles without obvious rhyme or reason. Nick Bish...
For defensive players in and around the tackle area, the challenge is to spoil and disrupt effectively while showing ...
The solution to the problem Wayne Smith needs to begin at source. Nick Bishop identifies a primary cause and solution.