Bath City boss Adie Britton is looking to add defender Clayton Fortune to his squad as the Twerton Park injury crisis continues.

Chris Holland, Ryan Robinson, Stuart Douglas, Mark Badman, Richard Evans, Marcus Browning and Aaron Cornwall are sidelined for Saturday's trip to Bishop's Stortford (3pm), leaving Britton with a bare 11 available senior players.

He has submitted seven days' notice of approach to Weston-super-Mare for Fortune, 26, who boasts Football League experience with Bristol City, Darlington, Port Vale and Leyton Orient.

Britton is also scouring the loan market for reinforcements, with Saturday's trip to the Essex-Herts border followed by a home game with fancied Eastleigh on Tuesday evening (7.45pm).

With draws at struggling Dorchester and at home to basement side Worcester City over the weekend, City have not picked up the number of points Britton had hoped for after seven games – a fact made worse by the injuries which are testing his squad.

"We're a few points behind where we'd like to be and we've got one or two problems coming over the next couple of weeks and one way or another we've got to discuss how we can get the squad through that," he said.

"September is going to be about hanging in there and staying in a reasonable attacking position.

"If we can get in the top half of the table, when we get everyone fit I feel confident that we are a side who could go on a run in this league – I haven't seen anything to frighten me yet.

"For three or four weeks it's going to be about hanging in there while we get some troops fit."

Keeper Robinson hopes to receive the all-clear from a back specialist on September 20 and should be fit to make his City debut at the start of October.

Holland, last season's player of the year, is visiting knee specialist Jonathan Webb to discuss the possibility of an operation, while Mark Badman sustained a hamstring injury at Dorchester and will be missing for a month.

Stuart Douglas undergoes neck surgery on Monday and will not return for another eight weeks, while winger Evans is still troubled by a bruised foot but may make his comeback at home to Lewes on Saturday week.

Veteran midfielder Browning, meanwhile, begins a three-match ban on Saturday following his sending-off in City's 3-1 defeat to Hampton & Richmond Borough.

City have few options going into Saturday's visit to Bishop's Stortford, who are currently level with Britton's side on nine points.

Despite the weakened squad, manager Britton is targeting at least three points from the next two games and believes that the improvement must come from the defence.

"In the next two games we must get three or four points," he said.

"We've had seven games and we could have won nearly all of them – we've pressed the panic button sometimes and defended badly, that's what has let us down.

"I've been really pleased with our attacking football, we've got goals in us all the time, but our goalkeeping and defending problems we have to solve."

Read interviews with Matt Coupe and Mike Perrott in this week's Bath Chronicle