West End Slowdown

The West End Slowdown is an annual charity Australian rules football match run by the Little Heroes Foundation (formerly named the McGuinness-McDermott Foundation) to raise funds to improve oncology treatment for South Australian children.

The match is held at the end of the regular AFL season, with teams drawn mostly from retired AFL and SANFL players, augmented with a sprinkling of celebrities who over the years have included former World number 1 tennis player Lleyton Hewitt, singer Guy Sebastian and Australian media personality and actor Andrew Daddo. The ex-players competing are mostly those who represented either the Adelaide Crows or the Port Adelaide Power during their AFL career, even if they only played a minimal amount of games for the club. Port Adelaide also can call on ex-Port Adelaide Magpies players while the Crows can usually call on any player who has ever been on their playing list including ex-Port Magpies players who played at the Crows, though those players who played for both the Magpies and the Crows have the option of choosing who they play for, e.g. Greg Anderson who started his senior career with the Magpies in the SANFL in 1983, played 121 games for the club and indeed won the Magarey Medal in 1986 and Magpies premierships in 1995 and '96, plays for the "Crows" in the Slowdown while David Brown who also started with the Magpies, was an inaugural Crows member and played 69 games for the club and played also for the Power in the AFL represents the "Power" in Slowdowns.

Regular players/coaches in the Slowdown over the years have been the likes of inaugural Crows and Power coaches Graham Cornes and John Cahill, 1997 Coleman Medallist Tony Modra, Magarey Medallists Tony McGuinness (co-founder of the MM-Foundation), Greg Anderson, Andrew Jarman, Scott Hodges and Grantley Fielke, Brownlow Medallists Gavin Wanganeen and Mark Ricciuto as well as various Crows and Port premiership players as well as co-founder of the McGuinness-McDermott Foundation and inaugural Adelaide Crows club captain Chris McDermott.

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