WEST Coast will not directly question Ben Cousins over his continued contact with people who have Perth underworld links, despite the fact his revised contract is likely to include a clause prohibiting association with such people.

The Sunday Age yesterday reported Cousins was last week at Melbourne's Beach Hotel with former teammate Michael Gardiner and Victor Kizon, brother of Perth's John Kizon, and another former Perth man who allegedly works for a company owned by the Coffin Cheaters motorcycle club.

He had travelled to Melbourne with the latter two on a private jet as guests of a Perth real estate company.

West Coast chairman Dalton Gooding said yesterday he was unaware of the report and the club would not talk to Cousins about the incident although it would be addressed in general when Cousins is presented with his contract later this week by Eagles chief executive Trevor Nisbett and deputy chairman Mark Barnaba.

Gooding said he could not confirm details of the contract, which had additional terms and conditions approved by the AFL last week, but it is certain to stipulate a code of behaviour which will directly refer to Cousins' associations with underworld figures.

In 2005 he and Gardiner refused to answer police questions over their involvement with Perth identities following the stabbing of Troy Mercanti and the shooting of Nabil Dabag at a Perth nightclub.

"What we have said publicly is the special drug testing, we want that in there (and things) to do with his personal behaviour," he said.

When asked whether he was concerned Cousins might have been in the company of Kizon and the other man, Gooding said: "Who he associates with is important and how he conducts himself outside the club is very important.

"I must admit I don't know those gentlemen.

"I've heard of him (John Kizon). I don't know his brother, I've never met him, I'm not going to comment on that at all."

He agreed Cousins could hopefully find social activities that meant he flew under the radar more than going out to nightclubs, but added that "if Ben's at these institutions and behaving himself and mixing with the right type of people, we as a club don't have any objection".

The Eagles received the revised contract from the AFL late on Friday night. It would be examined this morning by the club before being presented to Cousins later this week.

It is likely to deny Cousins a monster payout should he revert back into use of illicit drugs.

Gooding described allowing Cousins to play again as a "huge risk" but said the fallen star had convinced those he has dealt with since going into rehabilitation that he is determined to mend his ways.

He has pledged to abstain from alcohol and drugs for 1000 days — which would almost see him to his 32nd birthday and getting to the end of his playing days — and Gooding is hoping he will shortly resume his MBA studies.

Gooding said any penalties for reoffending would not be specifically spelt out in Cousins contract.

"I don't think you can put those things in contracts because you need to have flexibility, you can't anticipate everything that's going to happen and may happen, therefore you have got to have a degree of flexibility," he said.

"As an example, who would have thought when they drew up the AFL drug policy that you would have the sort of situation that you have with Cousins, where a player has been suspended from a club because he wasn't acting professionally and that player has later admitted he has got a substance abuse problem and yet he has gone through the AFL testing regime undetected.

"Who would have dreamt that would have happened?

"He just wants to prove to a lot of people that he's turned his life around."