It was that, and not Graham Johncock’s match-winning goal, or Patrick Dangerfield’s desperate tackle to preserve a slim lead late in the game, that will stay with him after the Crows’ victory at the Gabba.
"For me, that was the highlight, they never stopped believing, when I asked them for an effort in the last quarter, I looked into their eyes and there was belief there," Bickley said.
"We were three or four goals behind, hot conditions, all those things, we haven’t won a lot on the road this year, so there is a whole lot of challenges that we faced and to come up here and produce that, it is a fantastic win."
One of the keys to the win was the move of Johncock to the forward line in the fourth quarter.
He kicked the first and last goals of the quarter, the latter giving the Crows the match-winning lead.
"In the third quarter, one of our problems was that we dominated the inside 50s [the Crows had 20-12 inside 50s in that quarter], we were doing a lot of stuff right but we just were not impacting, so we were looking at different ways of boiling an egg," Bickley said.
The Crows have now won two in a row, but next face a Geelong side that has won its past two matches by a combined 336 points.
Bickley said he was looking forward to taking on the Cats.
"To come up against a legitimate heavyweight side of the AFL and not just in average form but white-hot form, I could not think of anything better for this side to test themselves against," Bickley said.
"This is a genuine AFL powerhouse side in red hot form coming to us so let’s see how we go."
