Caversham, the football club, and Pirates, the rugby club, have held discussions about the football club leaving Tonga Park and moving its base to Hancock Park.
It had approved the move at its annual meeting and was keen to get to the sand-based grounds.
Pirates had its annual meeting at its clubrooms on Sunday and chairwoman Jess Tuhega said the club was keen to welcome Caversham to its clubrooms after games.
But it was not so clear on what to do with the grounds and whether football pitches would be laid on the ground.
She said the club had a strong junior section which used all of the grounds for training and also games on Saturday morning.
The club had 13 junior teams last season and had to be mindful the teams needed a field to train on.
Otago Maori and the Otago Spirit side also used the grounds to train on later in the season.
Hancock Park is sand-based and the grounds generally stay hard and dry during a wet winter.
The club rugby semifinals were played at Hancock Park in July after wet weather closed all the other fields in Dunedin.
Tuhega said the club had to talk to the Otago Rugby Football Union over the use of the grounds and whether they were all needed for rugby.
The park had four fields, two used predominantly for training, while the two nearest the beach were used mainly for games.
The park was used heavily in the morning in the winter but had light use in the afternoons as Pirates only had two senior sides this season.
Tuhega said the club was fine financially but it was about figuring out a way to retain its identity.
No club wanted to die so clubs had to look at alternatives to stay alive and be relevant.
Caversham officials had been at the annual meeting on Sunday and club president Steve Fleming said the club understood Pirates had to meet Otago Rugby Football Union officials over what to do with the grounds.
Caversham was keen to move as Tonga Park was wet during winter and was often ruled out for training.
``We can see that they want to still have grounds for their juniors and have places to train for them ... but we want a ground where you can play top level football on,'' Fleming said.
He said perhaps 2018 would be an integration year although the club was keen to hold its pre-season training at Hancock Park. No sport was played at the park over summer while cricket was played at Tonga Park.
Fleming said he had received a lot of support from members of the public since the proposed move to Hancock Park had been publicised.
Dunedin City Council manager operations parks and recreation Jendi Paterson said she had not seen a proposal about changing use of Hancock Park but was happy to work with any clubs.
Pirates had been rumoured to be merging with Southern and then Harbour in the past few months but nothing had eventuated.
