Allistair Pickett
Allistair Pickett
Allistair Pickett (West Perth, Peel, Subiaco): No player in the AFL era has made such an impression in the WAFL. A tiny rover from Narrogin, Pickett played a few games for West Perth but was halted by injury. He won a Sandover Medal as a Peel player in 2002 and again as a Subiaco player in 2004. He was a premiership player with Subiaco four times and named in the club’s team of the century. Sometimes it looked like a little league kid had been let loose on the ground as Pickett weaved his way through heavy traffic. His kicking lacked penetration but was deadly accurate. In 2010 he played in Subiaco’s league team with his son Alliston.
From “Footy Focus on the Noongar Nation” Continue reading
13 December 2017
From “THE AGE”
6 September 2002
Allistair Pickett, this year’s (2002) winner of the Sandover Medal for the WAFL’s best player, has football in his blood. He is a cousin of Kangaroo star Byron Pickett, is related to former great Jim Krakouer, and is a cousin and close confidant of Jeff Farmer. Pickett’s partner, Renarta, is a niece of Claremont and Kangaroos superstars Jim and Phil Krakouer.
Pickett, 29, polled 33 votes to win the medal from East Perth’s Ryan Turnbull and Peel Thunder teammate Daniel Wells, who both scored 27 votes.
Pickett is the first player in the Mandurah-based Peel Thunder club’s short history to win the Sandover. After his win, he related how he came to give Farmer his nickname. About 15 years ago, “Jeff was playing juniors with Australs in Katanning and I can remember he was really disappointed to miss out on winning an award,” Pickett said. “We were sitting at home and I said to Jeff, ‘Don’t worry mate, one day you might grow up and be a wizard.’ Ever since, Jeff has had the nickname Wizard.” Continue Reading
The Sydney Morning Herald
27 July, 2010
Subiaco’s father-son make history
Allistair Pickett with
his two Sandover Medals
Subiaco created history with Allistair and Alliston Pickett becoming the first father and son to play together at state-league level in Australia and Pickett senior feels it is the perfect topper to what has been a remarkable career.
Allistair Pickett, who turns 37 next month, thought his WAFL career was over after serious knee injuries at West Perth in the mid-1990s, but was revived at Peel Thunder in 2001 and continued to grow when he arrived at Subiaco in 2003.
Alliston & Allistair Picket in 2008
Less than a decade ago Allistair Pickett thought his footy career was over and never dreamed he would run out on to the ground to play side-by-side with his son. Since then he has played in four premierships, won two Sandover Medals, a club fairest and best award, played for WA three times and was named in Subiaco’s Team of the Century.
Now playing with his 17-year-old son Alliston (Buddy) will be right up there in his achievements over a glittering career that has spanned 157 games with Subiaco, 22 with Peel and three with West Perth when he retires at season’s end. Continue reading
From: “Aboriginal Football : The Indigenous game”
6 July, 2011
Pickett reaches game 200, but Falcons spoil party
MILESTONE matches are always fraught with uncertainty; a club’s favourite son deserves to mark it with a win, while it provides a proud opposition with further incentive to spoil the party. And so it was at the weekend when the tireless Allistair Pickett’s 200-career game celebration was crashed by West Perth.
Such is the nature of football.
It was entirely fitting that Pickett’s 200th game coincided with the WAFL’s NAIDOC Week round of matches with the league marking the round with each team wearing Indigenous-themed jumpers in club colours. And that it also coincided against the club in which his WAFL career got its start.
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From “The West Australian”
16 August 2018
Gary Buckenara’s regret over not recruiting ‘Cyril Rioli-like’ WAFL star Allistair Pickett to Hawthorn
Former WAFL star Allistair Pickett won two Sandover Medals, but never got drafted.Picture: WA News
List guru and draft expert Gary Buckenara has revealed his regret over not drafting dual Sandover medallist Allistair Pickett during his time as Hawthorn list manager. Buckenara, responsible for getting Lance Franklin, Jarryd Roughead and Jordan Lewis to the Hawks in the 2005 draft, admits he “didn’t have the courage” to recommend the WAFL legend.
Pickett, one of the league’s most decorated players, made 205 appearances for Subiaco (180), Peel Thunder (22) and West Perth (three) in a remarkable career spanning 16 years. The four-time premiership player won a Sandover Medal at both the Thunder (2002) and Lions (2004) and was regarded as one of the greatest WAFL players to never get drafted.
Buckenara likened Pickett, a 169cm livewire forward who kicked 259 goals in his career, to recently-retired Hawthorn champion Cyril Rioli. “I still look back and regret a decision I made in my early recruiting days at Hawthorn when I didn’t have the courage to recommend a 29-year-old playing in the WAFL for my old club Subiaco,” Buckenara wrote in a column for The Herald Sun. Continue reading
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Is Season 2008 to be Ali Pickett’s last?
DESPITE being the WAFL’s most decorated player currently pulling on a guernsey, Allistair Pickett is fighting for his spot with Subiaco. Continue reading
Allistair Pickett prepares to pass baton to son, Alliston
DESPITE being the WAFL’s most decorated player, Allistair Pickett is fighting for his spot with Subiaco – as his eldest son climbs up the ranks. Continue reading
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Peel Thunder name 20-year all-star team
Peel Thunder celebrated its 20th birthday with a reunion dinner and the naming of their 20-year all-star side on Saturday night. Continue reading