As the team prepares for tomorrow night's clash with the Gold Coast at WIN Stadium, Bennett has told his players in no uncertain terms to behave in the wake of several off-field incidents which have left the code in turmoil.

Berkeley product Brett Stewart is facing sexual assault charges after a boozy afternoon at Manly's season launch, while Roosters hooker Jake Friend has been fined $10,000 for allegedly drink driving.

Adding to the off-field woes, Sharks halfback Brett Seymour was yesterday fined $20,000 and stood down for two matches for his drunken behaviour after their victory over the Panthers on Saturday night.

Sailor - no stranger to off-field controversy, having served a two-year ban for cocaine use while playing rugby union - said Bennett was determined to avoid off-field distractions.

"Wayne read the riot act to us before (the clash with) Melbourne," he said. "It was a great weekend of football and that's what we should be talking about, not what happens off the field.

"But you can't expect coaches and CEOs to look after us, we're not teenagers and we're not babies, we're grown men."

Sailor writes exclusively for the Mercury in tomorrow's Game Day guide previewing the Dragons-Titans game.

The dual international joined St George Illawarra in May last year at the end of the drug ban.

Last year the Dragons were rocked by then captain Mark Gasnier's involvement in an incident which led to Parramatta winger Jarryd Hayne being shot at in Kings Cross.

However, the club attempted to clean up the game's image with a community-based season launch in Wollongong, on the same day as Manly's infamous function landed Stewart and Anthony Watmough - who punched a Sea Eagles sponsor - in hot water.

Sailor said the latest alcohol-related dramas have made the Dragons squad increasingly cautious about having a beer after games.

"You can't help not be conscious of it," he said.

"As a player who has been in trouble himself a few years ago, I know the dangers involved.

"You want people to talk about the game and you get disappointed when they're not, it's like hitting your head against a brick wall.

"I was once in that 5 per cent of players in certain respects and I don't want to see that league is getting dragged through the mud."