Arrowtown is so desperate to host today's semifinal at Jack Reid Park it is prepared to truck in makeshift changing rooms and shower at a nearby camp ground.
The club has had to play its home matches at the Queenstown Events Centre this season, after its facilities at Jack Reid Park were demolished in November to make room for an affordable housing project.
Arrowtown will, hopefully, have gleaming new facilities in place at the venue in time for next season but in the meantime, those home games have felt more like away games.
The club has earned the right to host Cromwell in the Central Region premier grade semifinal and long-serving club president Simon Spark said the club wanted to play at home, and home is at Jack Reid Park.
"The Events Centre has been really good but it is just not home,'' Spark said.
"Our supporters like to wander to the ground and not be too far way. We've noticed we've lost a wee bit of that support, so we sort of made a decision after a couple ... [of beers] last Saturday night that why the hell don't we try to play at Jack Reid Park?
"Get the supporters back and, with the local support there, that will hopefully get the boys across the line.''
The Queenstown Lake District Council has donated the use of two Portacoms and one of the team's sponsors will transport the makeshift changing rooms to Jack Reid Park.
The Arrowtown Holiday Park has agreed to let the teams use the showers after the game.
The players will still have to put a gold coin in the slot like everyone else, though.
"It is going to cost us 88 bucks for everyone to have a shower but that's all right. It is nothing, really.''
The after match function is at an Irish bar, so everything is sorted except the weather.
Snow is forecast for Sunday but if it arrives today, the match will have to be relocated.
"The town has really put its hand up to get this done,'' Spark said.
"We're just waiting on the weather. If it snows tonight and it covers the ground, then we'll go straight back to the Events Centre.''
Maniototo and Clyde Earnscleugh clash in the other semifinal in Ranfurly.
