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
Adelaide premiership captain 1997, 1998 Adelaide captain 1997–2000 SANFL Hall of Fame 2007

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

Persondata
Name	Bickley, Mark
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	4 August 1969
Place of birth	Port Pirie, South Australia
Date of death
Place of death