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
Dwight D. Eisenhower once defined leadership as “the art of getting someone to do something you want done because he ...
With the current trend towards high-scoring games, leading analyst Nick Bishop looks at how own-ball kick-offs have e...
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How do teams beat aggressive high line-speed defences? Leading analyst Nick Bishop looks at the development of high-...
The All Blacks selectors get very few things wrong. So what went wrong in Chicago? Leading rugby analyst Nick Bisho...
The chop or cut tackle remains one of the most effective defensive devices, particularly against heavy ball-carries c...
The success at the top level can often be measured by player’s capacity to offload in contact, accurately and under c...
Expert analyst Nick Bishop explains how The Professor – Wayne Smith’s modules translate from the training ground to o...
Our rugby analyst Nick Bishop, takes an indepth look at Joe Moody’s recent loosehead scrummaging performance for the ...
Nick’s latest article on Support Play and it’s processes follows Wayne Smiths coaching module.
The margins between winning and losing Test matches are very fine, and nowhere is this axiom truer than in the action...