As a result, the Club Chairman, Eddie Mitchell is appealing for a +6000 crowd, being quoted in the Bournemouth Evening Echo as saying: "We have been given permission to make a payment towards clearing the legacy debt and it will reduce it to £150,000. We're hoping to make another payment next week and that would reduce it even further. We have got to get this debt paid by the middle of November, otherwise we could find ourselves in hot water. If we could get an extra 1,000 through the turnstiles on Saturday that would go straight to the tax man as well. I am confident we will get there but we need people coming through the gate. Unless we have an FA Cup replay or a second round tie, this is our last home game for five weeks so we need to get the numbers up because the income is going to dry up. We need a good crowd, not just for the finances but to ensure we remain at the top of the table. Everybody associated with the club wants promotion. If this team continues its excellent start and goes on to win promotion, we would need gates of 7,000-8,000 to compete in the top half of the league above so why not start practising that now".