New Sharks boss Steve Noyce must sign man he sacked, Todd Carney IT was only two years ago that Steve Noyce sacked Todd Carney from the Sydney Roosters. Now the newly appointed Cronulla football manager will be doing everything in his power to ensure that Carney re-signs with the Sharks. The Sharks announced yesterday that Noyce had been recruited by the club as part of a management restructure caused by an Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority investigation. The former Roosters chief executive started in his new role yesterday with the recruitment and retention of players his first priority. Carney, who is at the top of that list, was close to signing a new deal until coach Shane Flanagan was stood down and four other officials were sacked for failing to report to the board about alleged doping practices in 2011. Noyce released Carney from the final year of his contract at the Roosters in 2011 for a litany of off-field offences, including drink-driving and breaking a team edict not to consume alcohol. "Before I got here (coach) Shane (Flanagan) had articulated his keenness to retain Todd so they're some of the key priorities that I need to get my head around quickly and work on," Noyce said. I think a number of the players that you deal with through the 20-odd years that I've been involved with the game appreciate when you're honest and upfront with them. We all learn in life and Todd and I have kept in contact in the period that he wasn't at the Roosters. He's a professional guy and we'll have no problems in continuing our good personal and working relationship. Noyce will deal with recruitment issues as the Sharks face up to the ASADA investigation. It has been reported that up to 14 players could be affected. The NRL announced recently that ASADA wanted to talk to 31 players across the code in a process that will take up to eight weeks. The NRL's Integrity Unit will issue notifications to the players required for interviews. Players found to have breached WADA guidelines will be issued with infraction notices and proposed bans of six months to two years, which they could challenge before the NRL's Anti-Doping Tribunal. "You can't pretend it's not there, but there is a process happening so that's out of mine and other people's control here," Noyce said. There's a lot of exciting things happening in the world of rugby league - the television deal when I was still at the Roosters and the CBA which gives all the clubs some focus moving forward so you can put some plans together. Out here at the Sharks I'd read about the development opportunity that's come off so there's enough proactive things about the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks for me to be confident that people want to stay as part of that. Noyce has had a decorated 20-year career as an administrator, serving as chief executive of Western Suburbs, Wests Tigers and the Roosters, as well as a stint as general manager for sales and marketing at the Sydney Turf Club. After losing his job at the Roosters last year, Noyce kept involved in the game, working as a consultant to the NRL with a focus on the players' enterprise agreement. Meanwhile, the interest for Cronulla's next game against the Eels at Parramatta Stadium on Saturday night went up a notch yesterday after Eels coach Ricky Stuart revealed Sharks captain Paul Gallen had offered to a do a "nude run" down Cronulla's main street if they lost. "He said that if we beat them he's going to walk down The Kingsway naked," Stuart said. I'll hold him to that.