Galloway and Miller were quietly optimistic of success going into the new Blue Square North season. But it is back to the drawing board now after an under-par performance.

Galloway said: "Anybody in the changing rooms after the game would have seen how gutted the players were to lose.

"Nobody spoke for about 20 minutes. What it showed is that the players really care about the fans and the club.

"We know what we did wrong against Gainsborough and we will work on the issues in training. Hopefully we will put them right before Stalybridge Celtic come here on Saturday.

"At least nobody stopped working. We can accept being beaten by sides with better technical ability than ourselves but what we can't accept is losing to sides that we really should do better against.

"We didn't get out of the starting blocks quickly enough. For the first 15 or 20 minutes, we didn't play. But we came back into it later on and looked dangerous for long periods of the game."