Adam Lakeland says he would like to add one or two new faces to his Halifax squad but isn't sure if it will happen before Saturday's home game with Solihull.

The Town squad has looked thin in forward areas recently, with Jamie Cooke and Josh Hmami both missing a game through suspension, plus forward David Kawa and attacking midfielder Flo Hoti absent for lengthy spells due to injury.

"We're looking," Lakeland said. "We do feel like it would be good to get maybe one or two fresh faces in the building, if at all possible.

"Whether or not we'll be able to do that before the weekend, there's just a bit of a question mark around that at the moment.

"But we are certainly looking to bolster if we can."

The Shaymen are awaiting the results of a scan to ascertain the seriousness of defender Dylan Crowe's ankle injury, but he isn't expected to feature at the weekend.

Defender Thierry Latty-Fairweather should return to the squad after serving his concussion rest period following a knock during the defeat at Carlisle on November 4.

"He's back in training and we're hopeful he'll be fine come the weekend," Lakeland said.

"He's been fine for the last few days. It probably didn't help that we missed training up here on Friday, because we travelled, and then having the away game, but we're hoping he'll be available for the weekend."

Centre-back Will Smith came off the bench in Saturday's 2-0 defeat at Sutton for his first appearance since February,

"It's not that he's not in a position to start, he's just not in a position to go too deep in a game, or certainly do 90 minutes," Lakeland said.

"The position he plays, it's not ideal when you know you've got to bring a centre-half off at some point, whether it be half-time or midway through the second-half.

"It's easier to reintegrate Max and build up his minutes because, as a wide player, he gives you something a bit different.

"We just need to keep buidling Will up but it's great to have him back in and around the group generally and brilliant to be able to get him on the pitch on Saturday.

"The way the game was going, it gave us the opportunity to bring him on and get some minutes into his legs, and we've got another couple of games in mind which we think we'll be able to get some more minutes into him.

"Hopefully in the coming weeks, he'll be in a position where he's in contention to start again, and he'll only makes us stronger still."