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
Is the lineout drive a ‘blight’ on the game or one of the most fruitful areas for set-piece attack in modern praxis. ...
The speed of modern ruck ball has now increased to a point where formations have had to become more flexible to maint...
Nick Bishop details how Italy has extended the ‘I’ attack formation to great effect in their recent international mat...
It takes a lot of hard work to create a platform to unlock a good opposing kicking game, and the chase which backs it...
Nick Bishop investigates why consistently refereeing a tackle height is proving challenging for match officials.
In open play as well as from formal restarts, the kick straight up the middle is becoming an increasingly viable opti...
If you play it safe, it can often lead to the sporting syndrome of ‘tightening up’ psychologically. Typically, sports...
The principles of LQB and KBA don’t have to be confined to the skills of offloading and quick ruck ball production in...
Nick Bishop examines the value to a team of coaching with ‘clarity of purpose’ highlighting the All Blacks 2nd half o...
One of the focuses of the professional game on defence is to ‘spy’ on the opposing half-back and minimise their influ...