Hayes & Yeading United chairman Tony O’Driscoll will tomorrow (Thursday) meet with a mystery club to discuss a potential groundshare at Beaconsfield Road.
United are yet to move into their proposed new home and are struggling to raise a staggering £300,000 needed to keep themselves in business beyond the next three months.
O’Driscoll sees the potential of sharing the ground, once brought up to code, as a way of generating much-needed income for the cash-strapped Conference South club.
United held tentative talks with London Irish last year but the Aviva Premiership side decided against pursuing a relocation from Reading’s Madejski Stadium.
Instead, the new chairman has had to look elsewhere and already has one meeting planned for this week and another club interested in sharing the turf at Hayes.
He said: “The London Irish thing is not going to happen. There was something last year, I hadn’t even taken over, and they were looking for their own ground rather than sharing with Reading. They came down and had a look but I don’t think it was suitable for them.
“There are two clubs I’m speaking to this week. I’ve got one meeting on Thursday so we’ll see what happens there and then I need to arrange something with the other club. We’ve got options. There’s always something going on.
“If we could get back there then any money that we made from that would just go back into improving the ground. Everybody says the stand looks great but it’s a long way from being finished.”
He has also moved to reassure supporters he is doing everything he can to find a solution to United’s lack of funds.
