VICE-chairman Chris Reeves is looking to boost Poole Town’s push for Conference South football by selling the naming rights to the club’s Tatnam headquarters.

Long-serving director Reeves revealed that the Dolphins board had been actively pursuing a stadium sponsor in recent weeks in a bid to boost cashflow.

Tom Killick’s charges have made a flying start to their Southern League Premier Division title tilt but Reeves admitted the club’s board had been “a little disappointed” with early-season attendance figures.

And with the prospect of promotion to non-league’s second tier on the horizon, the Dolphins stalwart acknowledged the need to think outside the box to maintain Poole’s prosperity.

Reeves told the Daily Echo: “The club has enjoyed phenomenal success over the past few years and has progressed incredibly both on the pitch and as a business.

“Every year, Tom (Killick, manager) has raised the bar in terms of the team’s performance and the quality of player required to progress.

“A huge amount of funding went into getting the ground grading and we now find ourselves in a situation where we have to produce similar levels of income to sustain what we have achieved.

“With the start we have made, we have to anticipate and prepare for funding a Conference South club. We’re not counting our chickens or making out promotion is a foregone conclusion by any stretch of the imagination but we have to plan ahead because the possibility is clearly on the cards.

“We have to be permanently creative in talking about new sources of funding and naming rights is a realistic source of capital. We hope and need to attract more interest from the business community of Poole and we’re actively looking for a company to share in our success.”

Poole’s average attendance so far this campaign is 265 – 41 down on last season’s final total – although they have yet to host any of the division’s big guns.

On the gates, Reeves added: “We do feel a little disappointed that we aren’t attracting a few more people. We had hoped our terrific start to the season would create a little more interest.

“For a town the size of Poole, I wouldn’t have thought it too much to expect to attract 450-500 people given the success we have been enjoying.

"People flock to derby games or big FA Cup ties so the interest is there but, like so many clubs, we would like to see it on a more consistent basis.”