Mark Bickley

Mark Bickley
Personal information
Full name	Mark Alan Bickley
Date of birth	(1969-08-04) 4 August 1969
Place of birth	Port Pirie, South Australia
Original team(s)	Solomontown Football Club
Height / weight	178 cm / 82 kg
Representative team honours
Years	Team	Games (Goals)
	South Australia	7 (?)
Career highlights
Club 2x AFL Premiership: 1997, 1998 2x AFL Premiership Captain: 1997-1998 Adelaide Captain: 1997-2000 3x Adelaide Football Club Best Team Man: 1992, 1993, 2000 Adelaide Football Club Life Member Adelaide Crows Team of the Decade 1991-2000 - Back Pocket South Australian Football Hall of Fame Australian Football League Life Member Representative Australian National Football Carnival Championship: 1993
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Mark Alan Bickley (born 4 August 1969 in Port Pirie, South Australia) is a former Australian rules football player with the Adelaide Crows 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.

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 coach at Adelaide after Neil Craig stepped down at the end of Round 18. His reign as Adelaide coach began with a convincing win over Port Adelaide in Showdown XXXI. 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.

In November 2014 Mark Bickley joined the 5AA talk radio station as a co-host of the top rating weeknight sports show.

Statistics

Season	Team	No.	Games	Totals							Averages (per game)
				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