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
Sports coaches are always on the lookout for ways in which a player can make a ‘double action’ or second effort, rein...
Nick Bishop looks at some of the reasons which make a bigger unit at number 9 more desirable under the current laws o...
The cross-fertilization of ideas between collision sports is on the increase. American Football Pass Protection desig...
Nick Bishop explains why he fully expects the SRP law-trial at the scrum to be implemented world-wide in due course. ...
Attacking methods to get the ball quickly to the edge need constant refinement for the attacking side to be able to e...
Using some recent examples from Super Rugby Pacific 2023 Nick Bishop explains just why the more passive forms of defe...
A ‘sweet spot’ exists where the defence can move over to the attack at the breakdown as Nick Bishop outlines in this ...
Nick Bishop highlights some new ideas to create clean attacking ball from scrums encouraged by the latest law-trials,...
How can the defence return from ‘chaos’ back to ‘structure’, and the odds shift in the defence’s favour from an attac...
The recent changes in officiating guidelines at the breakdown outlawed a second move on the deck, and reduced the opt...