With less than a month to go before their CFU Club Championships match in Trinidad, Dandy Town are facing a cash crisis.The Hornets, the Island’s sole representatives in the competition, are still some $25,000 short of the $50,000 it will cost for the second leg of their match against Defence Force on March 19.While Bermuda Football Association have stepped in and given them $20,000, it is believed that Town had been promised greater financial support by the previous administration.Pot Luck dinners and an appeal to the local community has raised a little more, but it isn’t even close to being enough. Options being considered range from taking out a bank loan, approaching the business community, and even asking players to dip into their own pockets.Still club secretary Wayne Campbell believes the funds can be raised in time and has insisted that there has been no thought given to pulling out of the competition.“We can only do so much, but we are trying and at this moment we aren’t thinking of pulling out because that won’t benefit anyone,” said Campbell.” The fundraising is going a bit slow, looking at how the times are at the moment, it is to be expected.”The club have also suffered because up until a couple of weeks ago, they didn’t know who they were playing, or when.“We are optimistic that we can get as much as we need, but the problem has been that (until recently) we didn’t know what exactly where we were going. We knew we were involved in the competition but we didn’t know who we would be facing.“It’s hard to raise money without knowing what the cost would be, where it would be, how the competition was going to be laid out. It’s not like taking a regular trip on yourself where you know these things.”With the first leg due to be played in Bermuda on March 10, the club are also hoping that the Island will turn out and support them in large numbers, which in itself could raise funds through gate receipts.However the fact that the fundraising has become a desperate last-minute scramble still rankles with Campbell, who wishes his club had known far earlier where they were going.“We could have started the fundraising earlier but as I said we didn’t know where we were going, so we wouldn’t have known the cost of it all,” said Campbell,.“Right now we would accept any amount of money, obviously if a company or something of that sort can come out and helped us it would be great but we are going to look to raise the funds.“We aren’t expecting anyone to fund the whole tournament, but each little piece adds up to the cost of the competition.”What Campbell doesn’t want though is for the team to have to worry about the financial aspect of the game.All he wants if for them to have to concentrate on their performances on the pitch.“The mood around the club is good, everyone knew it would be difficult but we are doing the best we can,” said Campbell.“We don’t want the team to worry about the finances, their job is to play, but to get together and get this amount of money in such a short time is always going to be difficult.”