Mark Bickley

Mark Bickley
Mark Bickley
Personal information
Full name Mark Alan Bickley
Date of birth 4 August 1969 (1969-08-04) (age 42)
Place of birth Port Pirie, South Australia
Original team South Adelaide (SANFL)
Height/Weight 178cm / 82kg
Club information
Current club Adelaide
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1991–2003 Adelaide 272 (77)
International team honours
Years Team Games (Goals)
2002–2003 Australia 4
Coaching career3
Years Club Games (W–L–D)
2011 Adelaide 6 (3–3–0)
1 Playing statistics to end of 2003 season .
3 Coaching statistics correct as of 2011.
Career highlights

Mark Alan Bickley (born 4 August 1969) is an Australian rules football coach of the Adelaide Crows in the Australian Football League (AFL). Before becoming a coach, Bickley was a player for the Crows from 1991 until 2003, captaining the team to both the 1997 and 1998 AFL premierships and media commentator, most notably with Channel 9 in Adelaide as their sports presenter.

Recruited from South Australian National Football League club South Adelaide, Bickley made his AFL debut in 1991 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 2011, 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] 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 has coached Adelaide for three wins and three losses, the last of those a 96-point loss to West Coast.

References

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ http://au.sports.yahoo.com/afl/news/article/-/9909033/neil-craig-stands-down-as-adelaide-coach/?cmp=fb
  3. ^ Bickley opens with Showdown win | AFL | Fox Sports
Sporting positions
Preceded by
Tony McGuinness
Adelaide Football Club captain
1997–2000
Succeeded by
Mark Ricciuto
Preceded by
Neil Craig
Adelaide Football Club coach
2011
(caretaker)
Succeeded by
Brenton Sanderson

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