ST KILDA will break from a time-honoured football tradition with the club deciding not to celebrate the end of an impressive 2015 campaign with a notorious Mad Monday.

With the Saints' season concluding after Saturday's clash with West Coast in Perth, veteran defender Sam Gilbert told reporters the club had moved on from such gatherings.

The new approach comes just two years after former Saint Clinton Jones set alight a dwarf entertainer's clothes at a Mad Monday function.

"No Mad Monday this year," Gilbert said.

"We'll just get together with the coaching staff and the football department and we'll just have a nice little sit-down lunch.

"We'll keep it pretty tame."

The 29-year-old, who has re-signed with the Saints for a further two seasons, said the change in philosophy was born out of the club's unrelenting desire to grow its professionalism.

"It's great; we're really trying to really improve ourselves as a club," said Gilbert.

"It just won't be what it has been in the past, we're hoping to move on from that."

And after finishing last in 2014 with just four wins, the Saints have already notched up six victories this season to be one of the AFL's biggest improvers.

Gilbert said they wouldn't be celebrating that achievement with a traditional footy trip either.

"A few groups (of players) might be getting away here and there, but nothing formal," he said.