Rob Gerard's plan for 2030 Commonwealth Games leaves a legacy for Crows and Adelaide United Adelaide Oval is home for the Adelaide Crows right now but that could change by 2030. Photo: Dean Martin. AFL Season 2030. It could be the first that presents Adelaide not only as a city with two AFL teams but also two AFL venues. Rob "The Protector" Gerard wants to deliver the 2030 Commonwealth Games to Adelaide. The main venue for this international event would be Adelaide Oval, the current AFL home of the Crows and Power. Gerard's vision includes a second major venue, one with a roof ... and one that will stand as a legacy to South Australian sport. But to whom? Would you support the Crows and Adelaide United utilising a new stadium after the 2030 Commonwealth Games? The same question followed Lord Sebastian Coe after London hosted the 2012 London Olympics. Today, the Olympic stadium built for those Games is without its athletics track as it is being converted to the new home of English Premier League football team, West Ham United. Gerrard's new theatre for sport - most probably at the International Sports Gateway at Mile End - would face the same dilemma of finding a meaningful life after the Commonwealth Games. The most obvious beneficiaries as Gerard's favourite local football teams, the Crows in the AFL and Adelaide United in the A-League. Both will need such a gift in 2030. The Crows need to consider moving away from their West Lakes base, particularly while their presence (costing the SANFL $2 million a year in maintenance bills) hinders the SANFL clubs" wishes to maximise their return from the sale of the Football Park precinct. The Reds, if their progress continues as expected, will be seeking a bigger and more modern home as Coopers Stadium at Hindmarsh could in its 30th year without major redevelopment that increases its capacity. Season 2030 is still 16 years away. In context, that is as long as Adelaide has been waiting for its third AFL premiership after the grand final triumph against North Melbourne in 1998. It also is a year less than Port Adelaide waited to get away from sharing Football Park with the Crows to have a much better chance of establishing its presence at Adelaide Oval. Such time will move quickly. And it will be needed to resolve the big questions of design, costing, funding and post-Games use for the roof stadium Gerard has dreamt up at Mile End. Gerard's long-standing view that Adelaide needs two stadiums has gained greater credence in the past month with the AFL's decision to return to Football Park in March for a NAB Challenge summer Showdown because the Power-Crows derby cannot be played at Adelaide Oval while it is needed for the one-day cricket World Cup. The Commonwealth Games Federation is not to make a decision on the host city for the 2030 event until 2023. Gerard will be 78 then ... and still eager to pick up a shovel to turn the first sod on the Mile End international sports precinct for a stadium that not only brings the Commonwealth to Adelaide but puts Gerard's favourite football teams, the Crows and Reds, under the same roof.