CRICKET isn’t on the list, but judo and hang gliding are.

Jeremy Howe’s travails with his frisbee and suburban T20 have raised the question of just what limits are placed on AFL players and their extra-curricular activities.

For the record, frisbee is fine.

Clause 4.10 of the AFL standard playing contract is headed: “No Dangerous or Hazardous Activity”.

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The clause reads: “(Players must) not engage in any dangerous or hazardous activity, including but not limited to, trail bike riding, professional boxing or wrestling, soccer, gridiron, karate, judo, hang gliding, parachuting, or bungee jumping which, in the reasonable opinion of the AFL club, may affect the player’s ability to perform his obligations under this contract, without first obtaining the consent of the AFL club, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld.”

So the clause gives the club the power to put a line through any activity it deems may affect the player’s ability to perform.

At the same time, it calls on the club to be reasonable when dealing with players and their outside ambitions.

Yard work, basketball and bike riding also do not appear on the restricted list, but they can pose perils similar to frisbee.

It’s been an unusually dangerous summer for AFL players.

Brent Harvey was lucky to escape serious injury. Picture: Facebook Source: Facebook

North Melbourne’s Brent Harvey was lucky to escape with a “nick” to his left knee from a chainsaw with which he was cutting down trees at his home.

Melbourne young gun Christian Petracca broke his toe playing hoops in a pick-up game and Gold Coast recruit and former Bulldog Jarrad Grant fell off his bike and broke his wrist last month.

Collingwood football boss Neil Balme on Tuesday said he had not known Howe was playing cricket and it’s not something the Magpies would have encouraged.

“To be fair he didn’t ask permission to play and if he had I might have convinced him otherwise, but there is nothing wrong with him playing cricket,’ Balme said.

Under the terms of the standard AFL player contract, a player who is injured while engaging in an activity in violation of his contract is entitled only to sick leave.

If he can’t play footy, the club can withhold his pay cheque. The club doesn’t even have to pay medical expenses.

Clubs can’t make rules unrelated to a player’s employment, so if one wanted to ban players wearing thongs — like it was rumoured St Kilda did many years ago — it could do so while the players were working, but not on their days off.