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ANDREW Demetriou said he might have walked away from the AFL last year if not for the Essendon doping scandal.
Demetriou said he took no responsibility for the supplements saga and it had no major personal impact on him because "I never injected anyone".
Demetriou, who has been widely criticised for the AFL's handling of the Essendon case, said he hoped people looked beyond a "snapshot" of the scandal when considering his legacy after more than a decade in charge of the league..
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Demetriou said the scandal had not forced him out, rather if anything it had extended his time as AFL chief.
"There was no doubt we had discussions about even leaving in 2013, but once the situation started it increased my resolve to stay," he said.
"In some ways it galvanised me to stay."
Asked earlier if there was anything he would do differently, Demetriou said he wished the AFL had been able curb the influence of sports science sooner.
But he said that did not mean the league owned some responsibility for the Bombers saga.
"I don't accept any responsibility for people who seek to infiltrate the game; to inject young men with God knows what substances; to introduce practices that are abhorrent to the game and families," Demetriou said.
"Our job is to put as many preventive measures in place as we could, and even as good as our integrity department was; we didn't pick that up.
"That is not a fault — you don't catch every person who breaks the law."
ASADA last week said it had finished the investigative phase of its Essendon probe and would now consider evidence before deciding whether to initiate the complicated infraction notice process.
Demetriou said what happened next was out of the AFL's hands, but he was proud of the league's work last year.
"And all I know (about) what we did was as a game (we) always put the players first to protect the integrity of the game.
"The AFL has done all it can do in this situation. I'm proud of how we acted last year.
"We've enhanced the anti-doping code. We've got a team in the integrity unit that will make sure the code is protected into the future. What happens thereafter is in ASADA's hands.
"But the AFL has got no role in that part, other than to say we are equipped to deal with whatever happens going forward."
Demetriou said he had endeavoured to keep the Essendon scandal from getting personal and was adamant that relations between league and club were improving.
"I know that there are people who have sought to somehow try and create or personalise this issue and create vendetta and ill-feeling," he said.
"It has never come out of my mouth — go back to any statement I've ever made, I have never sought to personalise this.
"If other people have, I can't control that.
"I was at Essendon last Monday — we were welcomed by (chairman) Paul Little and (chief operating officer) Xavier Campbell and had a tour (of the new facility) we are committed to moving forward with the club. We want them to succeed."
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