In round 19, 2002, Slade debuted for the Geelong Football Club.

Slade managed only 11 games between 2002 and 2005 due to chronic osteitis pubis.

He played the first seven games of the 2006 season and had a big impact in the 2006 pre-season final.

[1] Slade was delisted again at the end of the 2006 season,[2] and despite training with Hawthorn prior to the pre-season draft,[3] was not selected.

This Australian rules football biography of a person born in the 1980s is a stub.