Mark Alan Bickley (born 4 August 1969) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the

Adelaide Football Club The Adelaide Crows (officially the Adelaide Football Club) are a professional Australian rules football team based in Adelaide, South Australia. Founded in 1990. The Crows has fielded a men's team in the Australian Football League (AFL) sinc ...

in the Australian Football League (AFL). Bickley was a player for the Crows from 1991 until 2003, captaining the team to both the

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and

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently s ...

AFL premierships. He was a media commentator, most notably with Channel 9 in

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as their sports presenter. In 2011 he had a brief coaching career as caretaker coach of the Crows after the retirement of

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Playing career

Adelaide Crows

Recruited from

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(SANFL) club South Adelaide, Bickley made his AFL debut in 1991 against at

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, as an inaugural member of the Adelaide Crows squad. In 1997 he was appointed captain of the

, and captained the 1997 and 1998 premiership sides. After retiring from the AFL in 2003, he began presenting the weekend sports report on Nine News Adelaide alongside

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, and in 2004 he became a panellist on the

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's '' Sunday Footy Show''.

Coaching career

In 2009, Bickley became an assistant coach at the Crows, thus ending his career on the ''Sunday Footy Show'' and Nine News.

Adelaide Crows

In the 2011 season, Bickley took over as caretaker senior coach at

after

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

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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 . 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. 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

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First XVIII football side.

Statistics

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1991 File:1991 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Boris Yeltsin, elected as Russia's first president, waves the new flag of Russia after the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, orchestrated by Soviet hardliners; Mount Pinatubo erupts in the ...

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1992 File:1992 Events Collage V1.png, From left, clockwise: Riots break out across Los Angeles, California after the police beating of Rodney King; El Al Flight 1862 crashes into a residential apartment building in Amsterdam after two of its engines ...

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1993 File:1993 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Oslo I Accord is signed in an attempt to resolve the Israeli–Palestinian conflict; The Russian White House is shelled during the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis; Czechoslovakia is peace ...

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1994 File:1994 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1994 Winter Olympics are held in Lillehammer, Norway; The Kaiser Permanente building after the 1994 Northridge earthquake; A model of the MS Estonia, which sank in the Baltic Sea; Nelson Ma ...

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1995 File:1995 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: O.J. Simpson is acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman from the year prior in "The Trial of the Century" in the United States; The Great Hanshin earthquake strike ...

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1996 File:1996 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: A bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, set off by a radical anti-abortionist; The center fuel tank explodes on TWA Flight 800, causing the plane to crash and killing everyone on b ...

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1999 File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school s ...

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2000 File:2000 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Protests against Bush v. Gore after the 2000 United States presidential election; Heads of state meet for the Millennium Summit; The International Space Station in its infant form as seen from ...

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2001 The September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror, were a defining event of 2001. The United States led a multi-national coalition in an invasion of Afghanistan ...

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2002 File:2002 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 2002 Winter Olympics are held in Salt Lake City; Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and her daughter Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon die; East Timor gains independence from Indonesia and ...

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2003 File:2003 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The crew of STS-107 perished when the Space Shuttle Columbia Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, disintegrated during reentry into Atmosphere of Earth, Earth's atmosphere; SARS became an 2002– ...

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Head coaching record

Explanatory notes

References

External links

* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Bickley, Mark Adelaide Football Club players Adelaide Football Club Premiership players People from Port Pirie Australian rules footballers from South Australia South Adelaide Football Club players South Australian State of Origin players Australian Football Hall of Fame inductees 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