The club wants a Gold Cost home game as a replacement for a travelling away game, meaning the Saints will still play 16 games in Melbourne as well as raise revenue of around $400,000 for the home match at Gold Coast Stadium.
Carlton, Collingwood and St Kilda are all prepared to play a home game at the stadium for the next two years.
The AFL had earmarked $1.2m a year for the Kangaroos to play three games a year on the Gold Coast until the new GC17 team starts in 2011, and will continue to use the money to promote the game in the sunshine state.
Saints CEO Archie Fraser told the Herald Sun that although negotiations were continuing, he hoped a deal wasn't far off.
"The option of a Gold Coast game is predicated on one less interstate travel and one more additional game somewhere in Melbourne," he said.
"We are happy to help out but we would like some relief because we tend to play six interstate games every year."
The Saints will also be pushing for an improved arrangement at Telstra Dome. The current contract expires at the end of this season, and Fraser said the fact that the club was drawing an average of nearly 41,000 people to the ground meant they should get a better deal.
"We will be pushing for a better deal," Fraser said. "We continue to draw crowds and have been in the top two or three clubs in TV ratings in the last two or three years."
"It's an OK deal for us, but in comparison to West Australia, or Queensland, or even a South Australian deal, it pales into insignificance."
