Ali Honoured in WA Football HOF

At the 2023 Sandover Medal, Allistair Pickett will be inducted into the WA Football Hall of Fame.

It marks the latest achievement for the remarkable story of the boy from Gnowangerup.

Pickett was one of the stars of the Football club in the early 2000s, playing 177 of his 205 WAFL games for the Lions.

In his nine seasons at Subiaco, he was a part of four League Premierships, and won the League Best and Fairest in 2004 - a year that broke the Club's 16 year premiership drought.

In the same year, he was crowned the competition’s best, winning his second Sandover Medal.

Gifted with plenty of talent, Pickett had the work rate to shine as one of the WAFL’s best players.

Pickett was acknowledged in the Subiaco Team of the Century in 2008, and was the only active player at the time to be named in the side.

He also represented WA on three occasions throughout his career.

Towards the end of his footballing journey, he was able to share the field with his son Alliston, the first time in league football a father and son had taken the field at the same time.

Pickett started his football career in the WAFL at West Perth in 1996, but returned to the country after battling knee injuries.

However in 2001, he came back to the WAFL, this time playing for Peel Thunder where he won his first Sandover, before following Peter German to the Lions in 2003.

His induction to the WA Football Hall of Fame is a significant one, as he is one of the only players to be inducted from the WAFL in the AFL-era, having never played at the highest level.