Mark Bickley
Mark Bickley | |||
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Personal information | |||
Full name | Mark Alan Bickley | ||
Date of birth | 4 August 1969 | ||
Place of birth | Port Pirie, South Australia | ||
Original team(s) | Solomontown Football Club | ||
Height | 178 cm (5 ft 10 in) | ||
Weight | 82 kg (181 lb) | ||
Playing career1 | |||
Years | Club | Games (Goals) | |
1989–1991 | South Adelaide | 53 (43) | |
1991–2003 | Adelaide | 272 (77) | |
Representative team honours | |||
Years | Team | Games (Goals) | |
South Australia | 7 (?) | ||
International team honours | |||
2002–03 | Australia | 3 (?) | |
Coaching career3 | |||
Years | Club | Games (W–L–D) | |
2011 | Adelaide | 6 (3–3–0) | |
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 2003. 3 Coaching statistics correct as of 2011. | |||
Career highlights | |||
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Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com |
Mark Alan Bickley (born 4 August 1969) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). Bickley was a player for the Crows from 1991 until 2003, captaining the team to both the 1997 and 1998 AFL premierships. He was a media commentator, most notably with Channel 9 in Adelaide as their sports presenter. In 2011 he had a brief coaching career as caretaker coach of the Crows after the retirement of Neil Craig.
Career[]
Recruited from South Australian National Football League (SANFL) club South Adelaide, Bickley made his AFL debut in 1991 against Essendon at Windy Hill, as an inaugural member of the Adelaide Crows squad. In 1997 he was appointed captain of the Adelaide Football Club, and captained the 1997 and 1998 premiership sides.[1]
After retiring from the AFL in 2004, he began presenting the weekend sports report on Nine News Adelaide alongside Georgina McGuinness, and in 2004 he became a panellist on the Nine Network's Sunday Footy Show.
In 2009, Bickley became an assistant coach at the Crows, thus ending his career on the Sunday Footy Show and Nine News.
In the 2011 season, Bickley took over as caretaker senior coach at Adelaide after Neil Craig stepped down at the end of Round 18.[2] His reign as Adelaide coach began with a convincing win over Port Adelaide in Showdown XXXI.[3][4] It was just their fifth win of the season, and their second since the end of April. This was followed up with a narrow 5-point victory over the Brisbane Lions at the Gabba in Round 20, for the Crows' first win outside of Adelaide this season. Overall, Bickley coached Adelaide to three wins and three losses, the last of those a 96-point loss to West Coast. At the end of the 2011 season, Bickley was not retained as Adelaide Football Club senior coach with the appointment of Brenton Sanderson as the senior coach.[5]
In November 2014, Mark Bickley joined the 5AA talk radio station as a co-host of the top rating weeknight sports show.
Bickley stepped away from full-time radio in 2021, and currently coaches the Immanuel College, Adelaide First XVIII football side.
Statistics[]
G | Goals | K | Kicks | D | Disposals | T | Tackles |
B | Behinds | H | Handballs | M | Marks |
Season | Team | No. | Games | Totals | Averages (per game) | ||||||||||||
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G | B | K | H | D | M | T | G | B | K | H | D | M | T | ||||
1991 | Adelaide | 26 | 18 | 3 | 7 | 168 | 142 | 310 | 47 | 19 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 9.3 | 7.9 | 17.2 | 2.6 | 1.1 |
1992 | Adelaide | 26 | 22 | 3 | 1 | 265 | 247 | 512 | 73 | 37 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 12.0 | 11.2 | 23.3 | 3.3 | 1.7 |
1993 | Adelaide | 26 | 23 | 13 | 9 | 297 | 266 | 563 | 93 | 63 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 12.9 | 11.6 | 24.5 | 4.0 | 2.7 |
1994 | Adelaide | 26 | 11 | 2 | 4 | 150 | 100 | 250 | 34 | 28 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 13.6 | 9.1 | 22.7 | 3.1 | 2.5 |
1995 | Adelaide | 26 | 22 | 2 | 4 | 217 | 178 | 395 | 52 | 42 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 9.9 | 8.1 | 18.0 | 2.4 | 1.9 |
1996 | Adelaide | 26 | 22 | 8 | 6 | 263 | 208 | 471 | 76 | 61 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 12.0 | 9.5 | 21.4 | 3.5 | 2.8 |
1997 | Adelaide | 26 | 26 | 12 | 21 | 351 | 197 | 548 | 84 | 80 | 0.5 | 0.8 | 13.5 | 7.6 | 21.1 | 3.2 | 3.1 |
1998 | Adelaide | 26 | 23 | 10 | 11 | 270 | 160 | 430 | 74 | 64 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 11.7 | 7.0 | 18.7 | 3.2 | 2.8 |
1999 | Adelaide | 26 | 18 | 7 | 4 | 174 | 152 | 326 | 54 | 25 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 9.7 | 8.4 | 18.1 | 3.0 | 1.4 |
2000 | Adelaide | 26 | 20 | 5 | 9 | 240 | 139 | 379 | 61 | 50 | 0.3 | 0.5 | 12.0 | 7.0 | 19.0 | 3.1 | 2.5 |
2001 | Adelaide | 26 | 23 | 2 | 5 | 285 | 149 | 434 | 74 | 62 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 12.4 | 6.5 | 18.9 | 3.2 | 2.7 |
2002 | Adelaide | 26 | 20 | 5 | 5 | 242 | 185 | 427 | 85 | 54 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 12.1 | 9.3 | 21.4 | 4.3 | 2.7 |
2003 | Adelaide | 26 | 24 | 5 | 4 | 241 | 191 | 432 | 79 | 73 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 10.0 | 8.0 | 18.0 | 3.3 | 3.0 |
Career | 272 | 77 | 90 | 3163 | 2314 | 5477 | 886 | 658 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 11.6 | 8.5 | 20.1 | 3.3 | 2.4 |
References[]
- ^ Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2003). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (5th ed.). Melbourne, Victoria: Crown Content. p. 52–53. ISBN 1-74095-032-1.
- ^ http://au.sports.yahoo.com/afl/news/article/-/9909033/neil-craig-stands-down-as-adelaide-coach/?cmp=fb
- ^ Bickley opens with Showdown win | AFL | Fox Sports
- ^ "Bickley unsure on chasing Crows gig". 26 August 2011. Retrieved 29 November 2021.
- ^ "Sanderson bolts into Crows job". 19 September 2011. Retrieved 29 November 2021.
- ^ Mark Bickley's player profile at AFL Tables
External links[]
- Mark Bickley's playing statistics from AFL Tables
- Mark Bickley's coaching statistics from AFL Tables
- Mark Bickley at AustralianFootball.com
- Adelaide Football Club players
- Adelaide Football Club Premiership players
- People from Port Pirie
- Sportspeople from Adelaide
- South Adelaide Football Club players
- South Australian State of Origin players
- Australian Football Hall of Fame inductees
- Australian rules footballers from South Australia
- Adelaide Football Club coaches
- South Australian Football Hall of Fame inductees
- 1969 births
- Living people
- Australia international rules football team players
- Two-time VFL/AFL Premiership players