Domestic-league season · Blackburn.
| Competition | Apps | G | A | Min | Match |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Championship | 15 | 0 | 0 | 718 | 6.54 |
 League Cup | 1 | 0 | 0 | 90 | 7.2 |
Pickering's current-season form is down 62% on last season (Season 13→5), while his Rating eased 58→43. His peak season for form remains 2022/23 (Season 41).
| Season | Club | Apps | G | A | Match | RTG | Season |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 | Blackburn · 20th | 15 | 0 | 0 | 6.54 | 43 | 5 |
| 2024/25 | Blackburn · 7th | 15 | 0 | 1 | 6.85 | 58 | 13 |
| 2023/24 | Blackburn · 19th | 36 | 1 | 1 | 6.89 | 65 | 29 |
| 2022/23 | Blackburn · 7th | 40 | 1 | 2 | 6.85 | 72 | 41 |
| 2021/22 | Blackburn · 8th | 32 | 2 | 2 | 6.7 | 70 | 31 |
| 2020/21 | Crewe · 12th | 24 | 3 | 1 | 7.08 | 48 | 26 |
Domestic-league totals per season. RTG = Field Insider Rating (potential / ceiling); Season = age-blind form that year.
H. Pickering is a 27-year-old full-back at Blackburn, rated 43.2 overall by Field Insider's model, ranking 364th of 493 in the Championship. In his prime years, he has been a fringe squad member this season (17.3% of available minutes). His defensive output reads 1.25 tackles, blocks and interceptions per 90. Below: strengths, watch-points, market-value outlook and the latest transfer news on Pickering.
Judged on this season alone, Pickering graded 5 — a workmanlike campaign that ranks 76th of 77 of the 77 full-backs in the Championship, on 2 clean sheets and 1.253 defensive actions per 90.
Year-on-year, that's a drop on last season (Season 13 → 5). Over the 6 seasons on record his form has drifted down, peaking in 2022/23.
On long-term talent our Rating reads 43, 53rd of 77 of the 77 full-backs in the Championship. At 27 Pickering is in his prime years, and a market index of 19.9 reflects that trajectory.
Past his 2022/23 peak — the recent trend is downward, so buyers are paying for what's left, not what was.
1.25 tackles, blocks & interceptions per 90 — light defensive volume, with 2 clean sheets across 15 appearances. Doing that for a lower-table side (20th of 24) is harder than the bare numbers suggest: a back line under more pressure has to defend more often and protects fewer leads, so the volume — and any clean sheets — carry real weight.
With a Rating of 43.2, Pickering carries the 53rd-highest potential of the full-backs in the Championship of 77 — though on just 15 appearances this season, so the standing rests on a small sample. Defensively he reads as light defensive volume (1.25 tackles, blocks & interceptions per 90). In the prime window — at or near peak market value, so the next two seasons are the ones to cash in or build around.
Generated from Field Insider's rating model · AI-written analysis to follow.
The gold line is market value — an index (not €) blending rating, age and league. It climbs through the early 20s, peaks around ages 23–27 (~20), then tapers with age. At 27, Pickering sits on 19.9, at or near its peak. The blue line is Pickering's projected Rating — 43.2 today — recomputed at each age, so it follows the same rise-and-fall as a career matures and declines. Solid = up to today; dashed = projected.
No transfer news found for this player.
