Cronulla skipper Paul Gallen accepts ASADA will haunt him forever Paul Gallen after another loss. PAUL Gallen has described the past two years of his career as "terrible" and reluctantly accepts that the ASADA saga will haunt him forever. Speaking on The Backpage Live on Tuesday night, an honest Gallen is still feeling the affects of a drawn-out investigation into the supplements program at the Sharks during 2011. "Unfortunately something will always be there," he said of the ASADA scandal. That is probably as much my fault as it is others. It's something that is a bit hard to get over and we'll just see where it ends up in the future. Cronulla Sharks captain Paul Gallen after an ASADA meeting. The Cronulla captain was one of 17 former Sharks players who accepted a backdated ban for taking prohibited substances. As a result he missed the final three games of the season as well as the Four Nations tournament. Despite being under constant scrutiny as a result of the ongoing saga which finally came to an end in August, Gallen said his passion for the game and training never wavered. "It's been terrible to be honest," he said. Paul Gallen all smiles on his first day back training. Two years of constant speculation and not knowing what is going to happen. I don't want to go into it too much but I can't really say it was our fault. I never fell out of love with rugby league. I love playing the game and love training every day. Some other parts of rugby league have become hard. I won't be leaving the game certainly in the next 12 months to two years so I've just got to get on with it. During the investigation and more recently, Gallen's outburst on social media where he abused NRL officials, the support of the NSWRL has never been in question. Paul Gallen holds up the shield. A Twitter tirade cost him $50,000 and threatened his Origin captaincy but the state refused to abandon their leader. Gallen paid tribute to Dave Trodden, Dr George Peponis and Laurie Daley for their backing. "The support of the whole NSWRL over the whole time and the recent incident has been great ... I can't thank them enough," he said. To have that unwavering support behind me, it is a really good feeling. Originally published as Gal accepts ASADA will haunt him forever