Hayes & Yeading United chairman Tony O’Driscoll feels for the club’s fans as they face up to the possibility of seeing the club go under but assures them he is searching for a solution.

O’Driscoll told supporters at an open forum last week that the club must raise £300,000 in three months to stay afloat as the current business model is not sustainable.

That money will be used to get their proposed new Beaconsfield Road home up to the National Ground Grading Category B standard required by the Football Conference.

The Hayes & Yeading chairman met with Conference officials at the unfinished stadium in the middle of November and has taken advice on how to get the ground up to code at a cut price.

He said: “I was asked how long do you think we can go and I said no more than three months the way things are going at the moment because it’s just all paying out. We’ve not got enough money coming in.

“Whatever comes in goes out and a lot more and we just run out. There’s overheads to consider. Sharing at Maidenhead costs money, we’ve got player wages, bills; it’s just non-stop at the moment.

“I feel sorry for the fans. I felt sorry for them when they were travelling to Woking - that wasn’t fair.

"One season was fair enough but three seasons there and still nowhere near getting back to the ground. I think that’s what the league have been concerned with as well because they kept being told we’d be back next year.

“What we put to the league chairman and the ground grading chairman, when they came down a couple of weeks ago, was that we told them the cost of finishing the ground. We then gave them the figure that it would cost just to get us back in there as well.

“But we also put to them another scenario. We suggested the possibility of putting portacabins in for changing rooms and maybe another for the bar and another for the boardroom.

“The changing rooms were deemed big enough but would need doing up a bit. We’ve just done a common room for the academy boys and they said that could be used as a board room, so that would save probably a portacabin but we’d still need a couple of portaloos.”

“We’d still need to do a bit of work and put in a perimeter fence. I was looking back on the quotes we’d had done before for these jobs and added it all up and it came to about £300,000 so that’s where the figure came from.

“On the day they [the league officials] were very helpful, which was reassuring to be honest. They were telling us where the money would be most helpful being spent. We were thinking all along it was going to be about £1.1million, £1.2million to get back in there but it’s not the case.”

Hayes & Yeading romped to a 6-0 FA Trophy win over Horsham on Saturday, to set up a first round trip to the winners of St Albans and Wealdstone’s replay on Tuesday night at Grosvenor Vale.

O’Driscoll added: “It was nice to be able to enjoy a game. You can’t get too carried away with it though. Don’t get me wrong, every little helps, but it wouldn’t be as grand as it would if we were playing at home. I’m still grateful for it.”