Geelong cancel future Mad Monday celebrations

Geelong has cancelled future Mad Monday celebrations after attracting plenty of backlash following their annual end of season bash.

According to earlier reports, the AFL were “not thrilled” by the team’s Mad Monday behaviour, according to Greg Swann, who confirmed the league would scale back on its involvement in club issues.

With the AFL choosing not to take action, the club has come out and apologised for any offence caused and have stated that future post season events won't continue in the same form.

"Geelong Football Club sincerely apologises for the offence caused following our end of season gathering on Monday," a club statement read.

"Certain costumes and associated social media posts were inappropriate and a significant error of judgment, and do not reflect our Team of All commitment.

"The Club has decided future post season events will not continue in this current form, and we will take this moment to further educate our people on expectations and Club and community standards."

The celebrations saw Max Holmes dress up as Caroline Wilson and Bailey Smith accused of homophobia for his captions around Brokeback Mountain costumes.

Sam De Koning and Ollie Dempsey took aim at rumours surrounding Geelong allegedly circumventing the salary cap through third-party deals.

They were seen arriving at the venue in an Aston Martin with a Cotton On logo covering the number plate, with Dempsey having the logo on his singlet, carrying brown paper bags.

Patrick Dangerfield and Rhys Stanley wore cowboy outfits in a tribute to the TV show Yellowstone with a custom decal on their ute.

Their get-together came just days after being beaten by 47 points in the Grand Final by the Brisbane Lions.

Asked for his thoughts on the optics of the gathering, Swann said: “We have spoken to Geelong and had a chat to (Geelong CEO) Steve Hocking, they’re dealing with it.

“In my time, we think the clubs are the best people to deal with it, they’re their players.

“We’re not thrilled with what happened and nor are Geelong, so they’re going to take some steps and I think there will be something coming out this afternoon around that.

“We’ve pushed it down to them to deal with, we’ve had some good chats with them about that.

“They’ve been doing a little bit of work in the background trying to sort that out and hopefully this afternoon you’ll see where that’s landed.”

Asked if the AFL would be reducing how much it is seen to become involved in club issues, Swann added: “You might see that change, as I said, I think these are club issues.

“We will step in if we have to but we’ll let the clubs deal with it.

“Yes, would be the short answer.”