Geelong makes a huge call on future Mad Monday parties as the AFL breaks its silence on the club's end-of-season function that went off the rails thanks to Bailey Smith

The Geelong Football Club has broken its silence after the club’s players found themselves in the spotlight over several fancy dress costumes and social media antics that took place during its Mad Monday celebrations. 

Earlier on Tuesday, AFL general manager Greg Swan explained that he was left ‘not thrilled’ by what took place during the club’s end-of-season function.

However, the league will be leaving the footy club, who lost to Brisbane in Saturday’s AFL Grand Final, to ‘deal with it’, with general manager Greg Swan revealing that the club were.

The footy club has now issued a statement following the antics, that saw Max Holmes dress as Caroline Wilson, while Bailey Smith caught flak from former AFL star Mitch Brown, who claimed the Cats midfielder was a ‘homophobic loser’.

‘The 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.’

Earlier on Tuesday, Swan said to members of the media: ‘Look, we have spoken to Geelong and had a chat to (chief executive) Steve Hocking,' Swann said.

'They're actually dealing with it. We've always - well, certainly in my time - we think the clubs are the best people to deal with it, their players.

'We're not thrilled, obviously, with what happened - and nor are Geelong.

'So they're going to take some steps. I think there'll be something coming out this afternoon around that.

'And so we've pushed it down to them to deal with, so we've had some good chats to them about it.'

Swann said when the AFL checked in, Geelong had already been handling the situation and attempting to round up their players.

'It's hard to find people and they've all disappeared and they haven't surfaced and things like that,' he said.

'So they've been doing a little bit of work in the background trying to sort that out.'

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