Liam Michael Pickering is a former Australian rules football

Australian rules football

Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, also called football, Aussie rules or footy is a sport played between two teams of 22 players on either...

er in the VFL/AFL

Australian Football League

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.

Football career

He played for the Geelong Football Club

Geelong Football Club

The Geelong Football Club, nicknamed The Cats, is a professional Australian rules football club, named after and based in the city of Geelong, playing in the Australian Football League . The club has been the VFL/AFL premiers nine times, with a record equalling 3 in the AFL era. Geelong has also...

 and North Melbourne Football Club

North Melbourne Football Club

The North Melbourne Football Club, nicknamed The Kangaroos, is the fourth oldest Australian rules football club in the Australian Football League and is one of the oldest sporting clubs in Australia and the world...

. He played 102 games with Geelong

Geelong Football Club

The Geelong Football Club, nicknamed The Cats, is a professional Australian rules football club, named after and based in the city of Geelong, playing in the Australian Football League . The club has been the VFL/AFL premiers nine times, with a record equalling 3 in the AFL era. Geelong has also...

 from 1993–1999, before his retirement from AFL football. He was also a talented cricketer who played 172 matches for North Melbourne Cricket Club in the Victorian Premier Cricket

Victorian Premier Cricket

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 competition.

Media and managing careers

At the end of his career, he became sports marketing manager for Fila.

He is now a player manager for IMG, looking after such Australian Football League

Australian Football League

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 (AFL) stars as Gary Ablett, Jr.

Gary Ablett, Jr.

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, Justin Koschitzke

Justin Koschitzke

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, Leon Davis

Leon Davis

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, Lance Franklin

Lance Franklin

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 and Hawthorn

Hawthorn Football Club

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 premiership coach Alastair Clarkson

Alastair Clarkson

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.

He currently co-hosts a Saturday-morning radio show with Mark Allen called Off The Fence on Melbourne

Melbourne

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 station SEN 1116

SEN 1116

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. During the AFL season Pickering hosts Off The Bench with Craig Hutchison on 1116 SEN and the ACE Radio Network. He also appears regularly as a panelist on the Fox Sports programme "AFL Teams".