A transfer windfall, a change of venue or a major sponsor are all Bradford Park Avenue need to get them into the Football League, the club's vice-chairman claimed today.

Bob Robinson, who regularly travels up from his Cambridge home for matches, is convinced the side can achieve their dream, but realises that the finance has to come from somewhere.

The fiver-a-week plea by chairman Frank Thornton to refinance the club has not received its desired response, leaving the cash to come from another source. Although ten associate directors joined at a £1,000 a year each, only 26 fans had signed up for the smaller amount, leaving the club short of its target.

"We would need the money to come from another source," said Mr Robinson, an integral part of the original management team that reformed the former Football League Club.

"But we are a very ambitious club, a lot of us wouldn't be here if we didn't think we could take this football club back to where it belongs.

"It might take a while, as much as 20 or 30 years but we will do it. It is a realistic dream."

Robinson also bemoaned the fact that the original club went out of existence in the first place.

"If the management team in those days had been more streetwise, they might have saved the club," he said.

"They probably could have declared the club bankrupt and started again the next day, but that didn't happen."

Robinson believes that the club are well on their way into the League - 80 per cent of the way there in fact.

"When we started again we worked out we were ten promotions away from our goal, and we have had eight of those now," he added.

"Admittedly the last two are the hardest to complete but we are going to try to get there. People must not forget what we have already achieved at this club and with the right attitude, I am sure we can complete the rest of the journey."

Raising the profile of the club, and thus the crowds, is another target.

Former Yorkshire and England cricketer Geoff Cope joining the ranks is seen as somewhat of a coup by those at the club, and they are hoping the association will pay off.

"We have to become more commercially successful," he said, the passion clear in his voice. "This is a great club, we just have to make more people realise that."

And a win over Accrington Stanley in next month's League Cup Final will make that realisation a lot easier.