Shane Crawford retired from footy as a one-club player after Hawthorn’s stunning 2008 premiership.

But the wily midfielder has revealed he knocked back a number of rival offers, including a huge Port Adelaide deal that not only involved the promise of captaincy, but a share in a fast food chain.

“I got offered to go to Port Adelaide, when I was a player, I was probably only three years in,’’ Crawford said on I’m A Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here!

“Port Adelaide were just starting. They said, ‘You’ll be the captain of Port Adelaide’. They said, ‘We will give you a five-year contract, we’re going to give you a share in McDonald’s’.

“But I was so connected to Hawthorn. I was like, ‘S***, I should be leaving really for the …’ I should have left. I couldn’t, but I knew that was a game changer right there.”

The 1999 Brownlow Medal winner estimated he’d knocked back around half a million dollars per season — a decision he felt comfortable with until the Power won the 2004 flag.

“I had all new friends at Hawthorn, I felt like I was very much part of the club,’’ Crawford said.

“They offered $800,000 a year and back then that was good money, compared with what I was getting at Hawthorn, would have been $300,000 or something, plus leadership, plus McDonald’s franchise.

“Not regrets but like, it was a pretty good opportunity. If I had have gone there, they came in, they won a premiership.”

The four-time All-Australian eventually won his own premiership medallion, albeit 305 games into his AFL career.

But Crawford said he could have missed that opportunity had he agreed to an offer tabled by the Swans in 2005.

“I was so over Hawthorn, because we were changing coaches and whatever,” Crawford said.

“So I met with Sydney and I first agreed to go. I needed to go and walk away from all the leadership stuff. I needed to go and concentrate on myself and finishing enjoying footy, and I was really excited.

“Then Sydney won their Grand Final about month later, and I said, ‘I’m not going’.

“Because they won, if they had of lost … Because they won, I just knew it wasn’t the right time to go now.”