Career
Bickley was a player for the Crows from 1991 until 2003, captaining the team to both the 1997 and 1998 American Federation of Labor-Congress 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.
In 1997 he was appointed captain of the Adelaide Football Club, and captained the 1997 and 1998 premiership sides.
After retiring from the American Federation of Labor-Congress 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. 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.
