The Chair of the Tasmania Football Club has addressed the ongoing delay in selecting a final site for the AFL high-performance centre.
Speaking on SEN, Grant O’Brien confirmed that both Kingston and Rosny, the previously-confirmed preferred location, remain under consideration.
He said the ongoing delay was due to delays with complex geotechnical site studies, which were initially scheduled to be completed in July.
“We’ve received in recent days an update on the documentation. And we’re working our way through that at the moment,” O’Brien said.
“On the basis that there’s nothing going to jump out of that, I would expect that within the next three, four weeks, we’ll be able to finally identify [the preferred site].”
‘Dragging feet’ now, as Clarence Mayor Brendan Blomeley put it, will prevent further issues down the track, O’Brien said.
“We’re better off to discover them before it ends up being a cost blowout,” O’Brien said.
“So we’re taking our time to make sure that with government, we’re working through every aspect so that when the choice is made, it’ll be made with eyes wide open and the right sort of due diligence done.”
“I know there’s an anxiousness for people to know where it is. And no one would like to know that more than the club, obviously.”
“But what the club has done today is make quality decisions with the best information that we can get. And we’ll continue to do that moving forward.”
