I was thinking the same but if it's a soft story (slap on the wrist to Manly) it could be buried in the noise of the opening round where fans and journo's are into game and player focus mode. If this happens the best time to release the story would probably be around 4.00pm Friday afternoon (but that would be too close to our game at 6.00pm).
I’m thinking 4.59pm Friday arvo, 2 line press release “ Manly have accepted a $50k fine for TPA technical breaches and upon payment will be able to utilise the full $800k left in their salary cap”.
No one will pick up on it, fans will still bag the **** out of us all year and Toddy will keep his job!