UPDATED 11.16AM: The Warriors rugby league team, who've been battling to hang on to their home turf at Mt Smart, have found a reprieve.

The Council Controlled Organisation, Regional Facilities Auckland, has spent years re-arranging the city's stadia to upgrade the under-used ones, avoid upgrading the ones that are costing too much, and to move speedway out of Western Springs.

The one body that can't accept the plan is the Warriors who don't want to move rugby league from its home at Mt Smart.

The team's threatened to move to Hamilton rather than get their fans to drive across the Harbour Bridge to an upgraded North Harbour stadium, which would get a roof put over it.

Auckland Mayor Len Brown has told Newstalk ZB that today's budget meeting will see the implementation of the plan put on ice while the council talks to those codes involved.

"What we'll do is sign off a thirty million dollar budget for the regional facilities who deal with the sports stadiums," Brown said. "That discussion in terms of final configuration of how we deal with those sports stadiums will happen over the next six to twelve months."

Warriors boss Jim Doyle insists their tactics are not about the Warriors having to stay at Mount Smart at all costs, but rather it's about doing what's logical - something the current proposal is not.

"Hopefully now we can engage, have some sensible discussions, look at multiple options," Doyle says. 

"One of the key things we have to do is look outside the square."

Councillor Christine Fletcher is welcoming the opportunity for Regional Facilities Auckland to go over its plans.

"Giving the new CEO the opportunity to meet the aspirations of the sporting world at the same time as affordability in terms of budgets is going to be a challenge," she says.