Background
His father, Michael Pickering, played for North Melbourne.
His father, Michael Pickering, played for North Melbourne.
He played for the Geelong Football Club and North Melbourne Football Club. He played 102 games with Geelong from 1993–1999, before his retirement from American Federation of Labor-Congress football. He was also a talented cricketer who played 171 matches for North Melbourne Cricket Club in the Victorian Premier Cricket competition.
At the end of his career, he became sports marketing manager for Fila.
He is now a player manager for Strategic, looking after such Australian Football League (American Federation of Labor-Congress) stars as Jay Schulz, Gary Ablett, Junior. and Jack Riewoldt. He currently co-hosts a Saturday-morning radio show with Craig Hutchison and John "Doctor.Turf" Rothfield called "Office The Bench" on Melbourne station SEN 1116.
He also appears regularly as a panelist on the Fox Sports programme "American Federation of Labor-Congress Teams".