Honors
Tim Pickup was awarded the Order of Australia Medal (O.A.M) in 2000 for services to Australian Sport.
In August, 2006 Pickup was named at Five-eighth in the North Sydney Bears' Team of the Century.
Pickup was originally named in the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs 70th Anniversary Team in 2004,(Named one of the club's 20 greatest players, on the bench-not the starting line-up) but was omitted due to a technicality, when it was revealed he had only played 47 1st Grade games and was 3 games short of the 50 game minimum. He was crushed when the loop-hole was enforced and considers it a career Low point.
Tim Pickup was nominated as one of the final four Five-eighths/Stand-offs for Manly Rugby Union's Team of the Century in 2005.
Pickup was also named Halfback on Roy Slaven and H.G. Nelson's 'All-time Mustachioed Rugby League Team' on their Nationally syndicated program 'This Sporting Life' on radio station Triple J in 1998.
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