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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
Contesting your own High BallHigh balls and contesting them is an increasing part of the modern game. This week leading writer Nick Bishop, looks at ways teams contest them to turn into attack.
Counter attack from Practice to ExecutionTRS welcomes English writer Nick Bishop’s first article, which provides an excellent analysis of how one of the tries of the 6 Nations, by Stuart Hogg, is straight out of Wayne Smith’s Counter Attack modules.
