- Sharks players may escape with one-month bans
- ASADA pain could end soon for Sharks
- Bans will hurt Four Nations
February 7, 2013: Australian Crime Commission announces a year-long investigation has uncovered widespread use of drugs in Australian sport.
February 12: Cronulla, Manly, Newcastle, North Queensland, Penrith and Canberra announce they were implicated in the ACC's report, and discuss possible amnesties with ASADA for players and officials who come forward early.
February 13: Cronulla reveal part of their 2011 season is under scrutiny but that no players have tested positive.
March 6: Cronulla confirm meeting with ASADA.
March 8: Shane Flanagan stood down pending a review. Cronulla sack football manager Darren Mooney, head trainer Mark Noakes, doctor David Givney and physio Konrad Schultz. Bruno Cullen made interim chief.
March 13: Damian Irvine quits as Cronulla chairman following reports he claimed players were injected with horse drugs in 2011.
March 20: NRL confirms ASADA will interview 31 players after the first phase of its investigation.
March 22: Flanagan reinstated as Sharks coach.
April 29: Sharks back-rower Wade Graham becomes first NRL player to be interviewed by ASADA. The authority later suspends interviews with NRL players.
May 12: Extracts of a report by ex-ASADA deputy chair Dr Tricia Kavanagh published by News Corp Australia, claiming the Sharks employed a systematic regimen of peptides in 2011 over an 11-week period while sports scientist Stephen Dank was linked to the club.
June 27: Federal Parliament passes laws that grant ASADA powers to compel suspect athletes and others to hand over documents and turn up for questioning.
July 22: The NRL issues directives to 30 players and staff to schedule interviews with ASADA.
July 29: Cronulla reinstate Noakes, reach a settlement with Givney and Schultz and resume talks with Mooney.
July 29: Interim chief Cullen quits the Sharks. Steve Noyce appointed two days later.
July 30: Former Sharks player Isaac Gordon signals intention to take legal action against the club.
August 6: Paul Gallen and Anthony Watmough's mobile phones reportedly seized at Sydney Airport.
August 29: Canberra's Sandor Earl is suspended and issued with a NRL infraction notice after admitting to using and trafficking the banned peptide CJC-1295.
December 13: ASADA interviews supplement salesman Darren ''The Gazelle'' Hibbert.
December 17: The NRL announces its provisional findings against Cronulla, proposing the club be hit with a $1 million fine, Flanagan be suspended for 12 months, and the cancellation of former strength and conditioning coach Trent Elkin's registration.
January 29, 2013: Cronulla, Flanagan and Elkin lodge their responses to the NRL sanctions.
February 6: Broderick Wright becomes the third player to take legal action against the club after Gordon and Josh Cordoba.
March 14: Suspended coach Shane Flanagan drops threats of appeal and legal action, accepting ban over ASADA scandal.
April 2: Sharks announce Flanagan would rejoin club on new three-year deal once ban ends in September.
June 27: Elkin's open-ended suspension reduced to 21 months after his appeal
June 29: Cronulla sack five-eighth Todd Carney after a vulgar image of the former Origin star is posted on social media.
July 1: Caretaker coach Peter Sharp quits.