Bath City boss Adie Britton is backing his club's fans as they look to raise funds to 'hire a hitman' for the final two months of the season.

Supporters can e-mail director Phil Weaver to pledge £5 a week as the Romans strive to make the Conference South play-offs.

Britton said: "Any help we can get would be gratefully received because it has been a hard season in terms of the budget.

"If we could add a player it would be an attacking player because we have been good defensively.

"We have a (transfer) deadline three weeks from now but if we can bring in a new player I am all for it."

Interested fans should e-mail bearofbath@hotmail.co.uk.

Meanwhile, former Cheltenham midfielder Adam Connolly is likely to miss both of this weekend's matches with an ankle injury.

Bath host Bognor Regis Town today before travelling to Fisher Athletic on Monday.

Bath City (from): P Evans, G Jones, Coupe, Holland, Rollo, Simpson, Hogg, Badman, R Evans, Edwards, Gilroy, Douglas, Rogers, S Jones, Slocombe, Caldwell, Perrin.

Team Bath will be without their first-choice right-back Matt Lock for today's trip to St Albans City.

Lock has collected five bookings and will serve a one-match ban. Winger Matt Townley may move back to defence.

The students missed their chance to move firmly into contention for the play-offs when they lost 2-1 at Havant and Waterlooville on Monday night.

With the score 1-1, centre half Sami El Abd, who had netted Team Bath's equaliser, was adjudged to have conceded a hotly-disputed late penalty that was converted.

Team Bath (from): Meredith, Townley, Warren, El-Abd, Lake, Perrott, Canham, Thorne, Ake, Benison, Llewellyn, Cooper, Caton, Piotrowski, Hobbs, Smith, Hines, Chitty.

Former Yeovil Town and Weymouth defender Roy O'Brien's career at Dorchester Town took another twist this week.

O'Brien was axed as a player when chairman Eddie Mitchell made cutbacks but was dramatically reinstated following the resignation of manager Shaun Brooks.

Now O'Brien has been offered the player-manager's role.

O'Brien was expected to sign his new contract on Friday and will be boosted in his initial team selection by the return of Nick Crittenden from paternity leave and Mark Jermyn, who missed last week's 4-1 defeat at Team Bath through suspension.

Dorchester (from): Stewart, Coward, Reeve, Smeeton, Jermyn, Bowles, O'Brien, Hill, Crittenden, Gleeson, Nicholson, Hutchings, Whittingham, Mitchell, Webb, Clarke, Kellaway, Johnson, Watts.

Weston-super-Mare will go into their home clash against table-topping AFC Wimbledon at The Woodspring Stadium in confident mood.

Weston are one of only three clubs this season that have left Wimbledon's Kingsmeadow Stadium with at least a point after a 1-1 draw there in September.

Mike Green returns from suspension for the Seagulls and Ryan Northmore is available again after his wife gave birth, but Ryan Havard has left the club to join Somerset County League side Langford Rovers.

Weston-super-Mare (from) : Northmore, Green, Willshire, Parrinello, Harris, Rand, Comyn-Platt, Bartlett, Wells, Williams, McGregor, Compton, Brown, Kite, Gurney, Purnell, Dean Grubb, Dale Grubb.