CALUM MCINTYRE says Chester need to analyse what went wrong on the opening day of the season.

The Blues’ National League North campaign opened with a 3-0 defeat away to Spennymoor Town and Chester will be looking for a more positive outcome from tomorrow’s home meeting with Brackley.

Manager McIntyre told Chester FC TV: “I think what’s important is we need to reflect on (Spennymoor) with real disappointment.

“That we need to own it and we need to wear it and not hide and dress it up as anything else.

“We need to be brave enough to analyse it, because it’s a defeat and that can’t be the level of performance and it can’t be the results we produce.

“However, we need to be really, really aware that we have a game next Saturday.”

McIntyre stressed the importance of not panicking at this point in proceedings and he added: “There needs to be, certainly from me, no crisis, no overly emotive reaction and I mean internally - it’s not for me to tell people how to react - but from us, in terms of a playing group and a first team group.

“But we need to be better than that. Let’s be under no illusions.”

Marine, with ex-Blues’ boss Neil Young at the helm, head to Scunthorpe United, while Anthony Johnson and Bernard Morley will take their Radcliffe side to Kidderminster.

Other fixtures: Alfreton v King’s Lynn; Buxton v Farsley; Chorley v Hereford; Leamington v Spennymoor; Needham Market v Southport; Oxford City v Darlington; Scarborough v Rushall; South Shields v Curzon Ashton; Warrington v Peterborough Sports.