A $2 million upgrade fixed Windsor Park's playing surface issue, but another long-term problem may have been solved with a much easier solution.
The Riverside-based home of Launceston Football Club has hosted important matches in the past, but has been without undercover seating "forever and a day".
Launceston president Scott Stephens said the club has entered into a three-way trial with the West Tamar Council and Northern Tasmanian business Adapta-Box, with a 40-foot, 59-seat stand arriving at Windsor Park in recent months.
"Our facilities here are probably the best in the NTFA outside of what North Launnie and UTAS have, but it's always been the sticking point, is the undercover seating option for our spectators," Stephens said.
"We can fit a lot of cars in here, but to actually sit in a grandstand has always been a hole. That's why we've been working on these types of arrangements to try and overcome them."
Across the six-team Premier League competition, Longford, North Launceston and South Launceston all feature modern grandstand options, while Deloraine's and Scottsdale's have been long-term fixtures of their grounds, leaving just the Blues without an undercover seating option.
Adapta-Box's stands are constructed from a shipping container base, with the company's website describing them as being built from "corten (weathering) steel and coated with marine-grade paint designed to survive decades of weathering without maintenance".
Stephens and the club had been working on the "cost-effective" solution for nine months, with the stand able to be put on stilts if required and a disability-access ramp able to be added.
The stand is positioned on the wing closest to the West Tamar Highway at the back of the club's driveway and car spots.
"We can move it to a different part of the ground, this is purely just on trial here in this particular location because we really didn't want to take away from the car park side of things," Stephens said.
"But there's no reason it can't be put in the forward pocket or up on the hill a little bit more, even next to the scoreboard ... all you need is a tilt tray and some straps, and you can move it."
Stephens said it is an option that wouldn't just suit a football club, with other sports clubs and local councils the ideal suitors for the temporary seating.
"There's a lot of grants around for infrastructure, and this price category really does tick a lot of those boxes because, as you can imagine, the full build of a grandstand is out of the box for all sporting clubs and local councils," he said.
"If a local council was to buy it, and let's just say there's a grand final next door at the cricket club, they can pick this thing up and sit it over there at the soccer club or the cricket club.
"If there's a show down at Exeter and they need some undercover seating, this can be picked up, transported down there and utilised in that respect."