While admitting that no club could guarantee the post-season festivities would not get out of hand, Castle said Canterbury officials had been planning how the players would celebrate the end of their season for the past four weeks and said they had learned from the mistakes of two years ago.

Bulldogs players were cleared of allegations that obscene comments had been made towards a female television reporter but an NRL investigation found that "offensive and threatening" language had been used which was open to interpretation and the club was ordered to donate $30,000 to charity.

The NRL also declared that the management of the function was inappropriate and called for clubs to seriously review how end of year celebrations were planned.

Some clubs no longer sanction "Mad Monday" festivities but Castle said the players were entitled to celebrate the end of the season and revealed that the Bulldogs had put measures in place to deal with any potential problems.

"I am an absolute supporter of Mad Monday," Castle said. "I think the name is unfortunate but it is no different to the office Christmas party, in my view, and the same rules apply.

"You have got to be respectful of the people around you, make sure you don't break the law, it has got to be controlled and you have to make sure there are minders to look after them, and you have got to be respectful to the media.

"But there is absolutely no reason that guys who go to war together for 30-odd weeks of the year don't deserve to sit down and have a few beers because they rarely do during the season.

"That is the only time out of a whole season that they get the chance to sit down and really not worry about having that one extra beer and they are young men who deserve that opportunity but it has to be in some confines."

There were again calls to ban "Mad Monday" after Cronulla players were last month photographed at an eastern suburbs restaurant with a topless waitress and allegedly attempted to intimidate the photographer to hand over the film from his camera. Sacked teammate Todd Carney was also with them.

But Castle said the Bulldogs "Mad Monday" celebrations would be held in a controlled environment and the media would be given an opportunity to interview players and film them in their fancy dress costumes before being asked to leave.

"We have got a plan, we know what we are doing. We are organised in advance," Castle said. "We have had a plan for four weeks because we could have been on Mad Monday every one of the next four weeks and we knew exactly what was going to happen, how it was organised and what the succession is.

"I am not saying we are 100 per cent certain that everything will go to plan but what I do know is that we have a plan in place and if anything starts to go out of control we will be able to fix it. And there won't be any topless barmaids."