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BRISBANE chairman Bob Sharpless has revealed a bold ambition that the Lions will one day play their premiership games in a state of the art stadium at Springfield.
The Lions' previous board's relocation bid presented Springfield as a training and administration base that could host pre-season games.
Sharpless' revelation that it could also become a match day venue is likely to spark a new wave of emotion from the large anti-Springfield element among the membership.
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A railway station has been built right next to the site with a pedestrian walkway to the venue and the master-planning for the club's new headquarters includes the capacity for extra grand stands to increase capacity.
"All I know is that the location has the basic structure to be a state of the art sporting facility," he said.
"The time frames of that project, it will go for years and years and years.
"You have got public transport, all the other associated infrastructure, I believe one day it will become a major sporting destination."
Sharpless, who is the deputy chairman of the Springfield Landcorp, has watched the gradual evolution of Carrara Stadium and stressed that although he expects any proposal to transfer games to Springfield would be a generation away — the planning was being undertaken now.
The Brisbane Lions' new elite training and administration facility (ETAF). Source: Supplied
"I think if you are master planning a major city on the edge of Brisbane, you have to build a capability for this sort of stuff," he said.
"I watched the Brisbane Bears play at Carrara in 1986 and that was a council oval with no infrastructure whatsoever, and what has it become, Metricon Stadium and in 2018 it will be a Commonwealth Games venue for 50,000 people."
Brisbane's lease agreement with the Gabba expires in 2015 and Sharpless said negotiations on the extension would have to include contingencies around the proposed shift to Springfield.
"We are looking to extend the agreement that we have to play games at the Gabba," he said.
"But obviously if the Springfield opportunity goes ahead what we want to try and do is vary that agreement."
The facility will be developed as part of a wider regional sport and community recreation precinct at Springfield Central. Source: Supplied
The heads of agreement between the Lions, Ipswich City Council, the AFL and Springfield Land Corp expires on June 30.
Brisbane's failure to date to secure $15m in Federal Government funding means that deadline is certain to pass without any definitive progress made on the new headquarters.
Brisbane would then be free to pursue other alternatives but Sharpless said the board remained unified in its commitment to the Springfield option.
The Ipswich council has made an approach to the Lions for a 12 month extension to extend the agreement but the club has made certain demands on commercial opportunities that remain confidential.
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