New Adelaide Chairman John Olsen has provided an update on where the club’s search for a new training base currently sits.
The Crows were forced to abandon plans for a state-of-the-art facility at North Adelaide in April amid the game’s COVID-19 shutdown.
Speaking on SEN SA Breakfast, Olsen said the club was committed to undergoing a thorough process before locking in a site to build their new base at.
“We don’t have a site directly at this moment and there’s several sites we are looking at,” he said.
“What we’re doing is proper due diligence and looking at any site near the CBD of Adelaide, the North Adelaide site because of cost, difficulties of the council and the onset of COVID this year has effectively been (shelved).”
The club is intent on building a base with the capacity to train on an oval both the size of their home at Adelaide Oval and the wider expanses of the MCG.
Olsen said the club were also looking at ways to highlight their history at the new facility, which would be on display for members and fans to view.
“We need an oval the size of Adelaide Oval with one would hope the capacity to take the wings out to (replicate) the size of the MCG,” he said.
“You could train on oval like Adelaide Oval and then adjust it so that in finals when we are there, we are able to train at an MCG-sized oval.
“Then you need facilities and club rooms and then we also have to look at the heritage and history of this football club to get it back on public display for access by members and fans.
“There’s so many different components to it, so that’s why we’ve started the process. It will take a few months for us to go through the process and we may not be able to tick every box of our criteria, but we will select the site that best meets this criteria.”