Agreed, but not really suprised when it comes to the Star/Free Press.

Its big call for the club next week . Lets hope there is no shortfall by next week.

The signing of Cooke would be a big boost to the club, it would be a statement if intent.

personally I have a bad feeling about this - and agree with moonlight - the club can't expect us to do this all by ourselves if we are short now I honestly don't see that changing by next week unless the club convince some businesses to pitch in (isn't this what they were supposed to do?). However as weighman said - hopefully no shortfall for next week

The problem when it comes to get money from companies as sponsorship for the deal is that they already approach all they can for sponsorship, as they have done in previous years. If a company sponsors Cooke say £500, that is £500 they won't be sponsoring the club in other ways and so just pushes the cost else where within the club. The trick is to find a company that had no interest in sponsoring the Dons, but would be interesting in sponsoring Paul Cooke...is this likely?

Also can I congratulate the members of this forum on us getting a thread which grows quicker than the real Ale Thread...I never thought I'd see the day!

Surely that applies to the fans also---they have a certain amount of money they can afford to spend on the Dons and anymore than that and they will struggle.

Exactly my point, we know the situation from personal experience, so we should appreciate the situation is the same elsehwere

Fair enough...but no need to shout about it

i'm sure the club as well as the Trust are very thankful for every penny they can get,however big or small - we all have our limits
since being made redundant last year and only finding part time work my income has halved in a year so my funds are really limited like most people but i'm sure any financial gesture is welcomed - here's hoping it helps in some small way.