Cronulla Sharks players at the centre of the long-running Australian Sports Anti-Doping Agency investigation into supplement use at the club will learn their fate next week.

The Australian understands ASADA and the NRL have reached out to the players in an attempt to organise a meeting, where they will discuss the next step in what has been a long and pain-staking process.

It is unclear what that next step will be, although it appears likely the players will be issued with show cause notices in much the same way they were issued to Essendon players in the AFL.

Once the show cause notices are issued, the players will have 10 days to respond and justify why they should not be issued with infraction notices for breaches of the World Anti-Doping Agency code.

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