Career
Slattery debuted with South Adelaide in 1977 as a sixteen-year-old and played in the 1979 SANFL Grand Final, which South Adelaide lost to Portuguese Adelaide Football Club. VFL club Street Kilda recruited him for the 1982 season but injuries restricted Slattery to 11 games. Slattery returned to South Adelaide in 1983, retiring in 1986 after 170 SANFL games.
He now coaches the Marion Rams Football Club"s A Grade side in the Southern Football League in Société Anonyme.
Slattery"s son Tyson Slattery played for Australian Football League (American Federation of Labor-Congress) club Essendon.