Collingwood are mourning the loss of club legend Billy Picken who died aged 66. | By Peter Ryan via agerealfooty vale
The champion centre-half back played 207 games with the Magpies between 1974 and 1983 before spending two seasons with Sydney in 1984 and 1985. He then returned to his rightful home at Victoria Park to play five games with the Magpies in 1986.
The high-flyer was a character famous for commentating ‘here comes Billy’ while on the field as he prepared to launch for a mark and despite an ungainly kicking style was good enough to win two Copeland Trophies and be named in Collingwood’s Team of the Century.His aerial ability put him alongside St Kilda’s Trevor Barker, Hawthorn’s Peter Knights and Essendon’s Paul Vander Haar as players who regularly took spectacular marks in the ’70s with Picken winning mark of the year in 1974 and 1976.
Another of his three sons Marcus played 25 games with the Brisbane Lions and was on the Bulldogs list for two years without playing a game.Picken grew up in Macarthur, a small country town near Hamilton, before joining the Magpies as a forward in 1974.Collingwood president Jeff Browne passed on his condolences to the friends and family of Picken who was married to Julie and had a third son, Sean.
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