SAM Thaiday had a crack during his Dally M awards roast.

“Before we start, can we get some clean glasses over to the Bulldogs’ table please?”

The joke, of course, was made in reference to Canterbury players putting their penises into drinking glasses during their now infamous Mad Monday celebrations earlier this month.

It is just the latest jab the Bulldogs have had to cop since photos of nude players surfaced, and while Dave Klemmer says it’s now water off a duck’s back, it clearly still grinds with the Kangaroos prop.

“Oh...Well that’s just Sam trying to be funny,” he said, after being told by foxsports.com.au what Thaiday said on Wednesday evening.

“I wasn’t there, I was with my family last night, so what do you do?

“People are going to take the mickey out of us all the time now because of what’s happened but what do you do? You can’t do anything about it.”

He’s watched his good mate Adam Elliott go through hell since becoming the face of the September 3 antics, and thankfully he has revealed the lock forward’s well-being is on the improve.

“(Elliott) struggled a bit. He does a lot of things outside of football as well, a lot of charity work, he’s a good fella as well,” Klemmer said.

“If you know Adam he’s a genuine bloke, he’s a very good fella and to see him hurting it was hard to see and I just wanted to support him.

“I’m still supporting him and for two and a bit weeks he was struggling, but he’s got away with his missus and his family and he’s doing all right now.”

Despite all the hurt caused, Klemmer can see a silver lining, and it’s in the way the players have rallied around each other.

“I think we’ve come leaps and bounds… we were tight already but we’ve become extremely close since that,” he continued.

“We’re backing all the players, we’re behind all the players involved.

“Just before our presentation (coach Dean Pay) got us all together and we were united. So as a group we’re really tight, there’s a good feeling now.

“Obviously there were a lot of people angry and frustrated but we can’t control the things that happened and we’ve just got to stay together and look after each other.”

When asked if there is an ‘us against the world’ mentality at Belmore now, Klemmer nodded.

“A little bit mate, for sure,” he replied.

“Especially with the media, you know the papers that put the photographers there to get the story and then blow up about it, which is confusing.

“If you don’t look for those photos you don’t have a story and you don’t blow up about it.

“It’s frustrating because it was a private event, it was three or four stories high, and as a playing group we’ve moved forward but we’ll remember that, a lot of people will remember that.”