McLeod feels on outer at Adelaide

ADELAIDE great Andrew McLeod says he does not feel comfortable walking back into his AFL club.

McLeod, who won Norm Smith medals as best-afield in the Crows’ two premierships, said he and some of his retired teammates did not feel welcome at the club.

“I’m one of those guys that if you asked me if I felt comfortable walking back into the football club, I would say no,” he said on a podcast he co-hosts with retired basketballer Brett Maher.

“It’s one of those things — and I have had this conversation with a lot of my old teammates — that it’s not a place you feel welcomed.”

McLeod is Adelaide’s games-record holder, playing 340 matches in a decorated career highlighted by the 1997-98 premierships and winning three club champion awards.

“You see lots of guys go back to their footy clubs and feel welcomed . . . for me, the Crows doesn’t really have that vibe,” he said on the Bunji and Brettster podcast.

“It doesn’t have that vibe where you’re really welcomed here . . . it’s not a place you feel like it embraces you as a past player.”

During his playing career, McLeod infamously fell out with long-term teammate Tyson Edwards in a feud that embroiled their wives and tennis star and Crows fan Lleyton Hewitt.

Hewitt, a long-time No.1 ticketholder at the Crows, had been a friend of McLeod until the tennis champion released a DVD containing footage of the pair at indigenous sacred sites.

“Seeing myself on something like that was just embarrassing. It was so bad,” McLeod said in his biography, Black Crow.

He launched legal action over the use of the footage and Edwards’s wife, Mandy, supported Hewitt in affidavit in a matter ultimately settled confidentially out-of-court.