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
Nick Bishop depicts how Teams like to use multi-phase attack to exploit the low-energy defender.
Nick Bishop highlights the attacking value of distributors who can offer superior quality with their left-to-right pa...
If the ball goes forward off, it is a knock-on and a scrum to the opposition, right? Well not always the case as Anal...
The new ruck guidelines have accelerated the blurring of boundaries between ball-winners and ball-users, contact ‘gru...
Why is there a need to keep pace in the observation, and explanation of the game of Rugby? Many of the understanding...
Professional coaches spend an awful lot of time looking for loopholes, or grey areas within the rugby lawbook which t...
In Part 2 of how the different No 9 styles can work in harmony with the new breakdown guidelines, Nick Bishop examine...
Nick Bishop examines the mechanics of how the different No 9 styles can work in harmony with the new breakdown guidel...
The flat or short ball to the ‘forward’, and the ball out of the back door to another back-line distributor, which is...
In part 2 of this series, with the pre-dominance of kicking, Nick considers the movement towards full-backs who offer...