Lawyers to babysit players in interviews THE NRL has announced it will send in its own legal team to babysit players during interviews when ASADA resumes its investigation into the code next month. The game hopes to be clear of the process by the time the finals begin in September and yesterday issued a statement saying 30 players and a number of support staff had already been informed they would be required to co-operate with ASADA investigators when interviews start on August 1. Any issue like this you want to get to the bottom of it whichever outcome it generates. Our target is the end of August but we've got to work around their availability, players' availability, et cetera. The federal government's anti-doping watchdog announced almost three months ago that it was cancelling its interviews with Sharks players following a failed attempt with Wade Graham. Graham refused to answer certain questions from investigators over fear of self-incrimination, prompting NRL chief executive Dave Smith to intervene and call for a transcript of the interview. Smith found no problem with Graham's response and called for the process to resume, prompting ASADA to pull the pin while it waited for access to players phone records, texts and emails to become law. Doyle last night said the NRL would send members of its own legal team into the interviews to ensure both parties were happy. They'll make sure that it is all above board. Doyle said he was optimistic ASADA could complete its inquiries into the code by the end of next month. The doping agency has committed two separate sets of investigators to conduct interviews (there was only one at the time of the first interview and there were fears the process could drag on for six weeks). The NRL did not disclose which clubs or players had been contacted but Cronulla -- which is in seventh position and a chance of making the finals -- was believed to have up to 10 players involved from the time that controversial sports scientist Stephen Dank was at the club in 2011. Other clubs that were mentioned from the outset include Manly, Newcastle, Canberra, Penrith and North Queensland and they are still a chance of taking part in the finals this year. Sharks winger Beau Ryan -- who was not part of the club in 2011 -- admitted the timing wasn't great as the club was well in finals contention. "The timing is not great but it never is with that stuff," Ryan said. We have already dealt with most of that this year and everyone is confident we will be all right and no one has done anything wrong. Hopefully it's sooner rather than later and we get a bit of help from the NRL and we can put it to rest because it's not good, not only for the guys going through it but for Australian sport.