The Wests Tigers will have their $750,000 salary cap fine halved and chief executive Justin Pascoe will be welcomed back to the game in June.
The NRL on Friday handed down their final ruling on the Tigers’ punishment for failing to declare an ambassadorial role offered to Robbie Farah.
As part of the sanctions, the Tigers will also have $319,500 stripped from both this and next year’s salary cap to meet the $639,000 offer to Farah which was not disclosed to the NRL.
It means the Tigers will likely have to release one player by June 30 in order to fill their 30-man roster and fit under the cap.
Yet the news was largely positive for the Tigers, as Pascoe had originally been deregistered by the NRL when the original findings were announced in December.
His ban will now be just six months backdated, meaning he can return to his post as soon as June 19 following the mid-season representative round break.
The NRL says the penalty deduction and Pascoe’s reprieve come after the club accepted their fault in the dealings.
According to the NRL’s investigation, the Tigers had used the ambassadorial offer to induce Farah to leave the club at the end of the 2016 season.