DEAN Brennan insisted it is important for Billericay Town to get over their FA Cup exit as soon as possible.

Town suffered a 3-1 first round replay defeat to Chesterfield at a jam-packed AGP Arena, which ended the National League South high-flyers’ hopes of reaching the second round for the first time in the club’s history.

But Billericay will turn their attentions to the FA Trophy this weekend, with them making the trip to Hampton & Richmond Borough for a third qualifying round clash, and Brennan has called on his side to bounce back.

Brennan said: “We take it one game at a time and we can’t affect anything that happened in the game now.

“We will analyse the game and see how we can improve.

“We’ll work on that in training this evening and then we’ll go again at Hampton, which is a really tough place to go.

“They’re out of the FA Cup as well, so we will both be looking to bounce back.”

Billericay were looking to make history by beating their best FA Cup run with victory over National League side Chesterfield.

And although Joe Kizzi was on target for the hosts, Tom Denton’s hat-trick allowed the Spireites to book a home tie against League Two side Grimsby Town at Billericay’s expense.

Kizzi levelled matters soon after the break, but Denton headed home a corner to restore Chesterfield’s lead just two minutes later.

And Brennan admitted the timing of the visitors’ second goal was a body blow.

“To concede just two minutes after equalising was frustrating,” added Brennan.

“The goal came from a corner - a set-piece once again - and it’s something we have to address, it’s as simple as that.

“It was a hard break and it sort of shakes your team.

“That’s when you need your characters to step up.

“We felt we had a couple of decent efforts, at 2-1, but we never took the opportunities and the better team won - we have to be realistic about that.

“They prepared better, whereas we had players who were at work.

“We’re going to move our sessions to the days from December.

“That’s going to happen at the football club now because we need to get the last one per cent right.”

And Brennan will not allow himself to think that Billericay missed out on making history by reaching the second round for the first time.

“We haven’t made history so I don’t think about it like that,” confirmed Brennan.

“The performance didn’t matter - the result was all that mattered.

“Nothing else mattered other than the result. They scored three and we scored one.”