Manly Rugby Union
Tim Pickup's Rugby League career stalled when his family relocated as the Western Suburbs RLFC would not grant a transfer/release for Tim to further his career with any club other than Wests, and especially not to Manly-Warringah.
With options few and far between Pickup tagged along with a work mate to the Manly Rugby Club and never having played the sport, quickly rose through the grades in the pre-season and was named starting 1st Grade stand-off as a 17 year-old in the first game of the 1966 season, against reigning Premiers Randwick. Pickup played 3 straight years at Five-eighth/Stand-off uninterrupted,never missing the 1st Grade starting line-up through form or injury. Manly was competitive during the entirety of Tim's tenure, his last ever game for the club being the 1968 Grand Final which they would lose to a star-studded Sydney University, 23-6. A Manly team-mate of Pickup's was future dual-International Stephen Knight,who was also a teenager at the time.
Frustrated with a lack of progress on the representative scene, Pickup felt he was a victim of his Rugby League heritage and stubbornly severed his ties and set off to England on a working holiday, and would not return to Australia until 1972.
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