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Peter Ryan Sports reporter October 2, 2025 — 12.09pm

After a sad Sunday, Geelong launched into Mad Monday, which morphed into bad Tuesday before they finished the drama with a media release on hopping-mad Wednesday.

Before the AFL even had the chance to say “not happy Jan”, the Cats’ wheels were spinning to address the embarrassment from inappropriate costumes and offensive social media posts from players, prompting a club-wide apology.

Now, it appears, Mad Mondays are dead .

That’s a bit sad. The Cats had won a reputation for good humour and occasionally pointed yet harmless costumes at their annual fancy dress party designed to amuse .

On the list of football-related matters we should mourn, the killing off of Mad Monday is not quite as sad

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