Preview: Stags vs Oldham Athletic

11 October 2019

Next up for the Stags is a meeting with Oldham Athletic on Saturday 10 October at One Call Stadium (3pm kick-off). Here’s all you need to know ahead of the match…

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After an injury-plagued start to the campaign, the amber and blue look to be edging closer to a fully fit squad for the first time this season.

Jordan Graham returned to training this week following a knee injury.

Craig Davies is also close to coming back into the fold with the forward set to join some first-team training sessions within the next week-and-a-half.

Defender Matt Preston will play no part as he serves the final game of a four-match suspension following his sending off against Cambridge United. Hayden White is also suspended after his red at Blundell Park last Saturday.

Jacob Mellis is likely to miss out due to a hamstring injury obtained in the Leasing.com Trophy on Tuesday, though the problem is not as bad as initially feared.

Urko Vera, Gary Woods, Zak Mills and Johan Branger-Engone are all likely to miss out for the visitors due to injury.

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Last time out in Sky Bet League Two, Krystian Pearce struck a 96th minute winner to give the Stags a 1-0 win over Grimsby Town.

Oldham’s previous league match ended in a stalemate against Cheltenham Town with the sides scoring a goal apiece.

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The two sides last met in April of this year when the Latics came out on top, winning 3-2 in an all-action encounter at Boundary Park.

The referee for Saturday's match will be Lee Swabey, assisted by Anthony Moore and Andrew Aylott. The fourth official will be Wayne Grunnill.

Ticket information for the match is as follows:

A full breakdown of match ticket prices for the 2019-20 season in the Ian Greaves Stand (lower tier) is as follows:

CATEGORY	BEFORE MATCHDAY	ON MATCHDAY
Adult	£22	£24.50
Senior	£18	£20.50
Young adult (18-21)	£16	£18.50
Junior (7-17)	£12	£14.50
6 and under	FREE	FREE

Ticket prices for the Ian Greaves Stand (upper tier) are as follows:

CATEGORY	BEFORE MATCHDAY	ON MATCHDAY
Adult	£23	£25.50
Senior	£19	£21.50
Young adult (18-21)	£16	£18.50
Junior (7-17)	£14	£16.50
6 and under	FREE	FREE

Quarry Lane prices are as follows:

CATEGORY	BEFORE MATCHDAY(with membership card)	BEFORE MATCHDAY(without membership card)	ON MATCHDAY(with or without membership card)
Adult	£11	£22	£24.50
Senior	£9	£18	£20.50
Young adult (18-21)	£8	£16	£18.50
Junior (7-17)	£6	£12	£14.50
6 and under	FREE	FREE	FREE

Tickets for the match are available to purchase online via www.stagstickets.co.uk, at the ticket office on Quarry Lane, or by calling the ticket office on 01623 482 482.

Supporters who have purchased tickets via stagstickets.co.uk and selected the 'print at home' option can now use their mobile ticket received via email to access One Call Stadium. Just scan the barcode on your mobile ticket using the scanners at the turnstiles.

All pre-purchased tickets will now be available to collect from the 'Collections Only' window at our ticket office booth on matchdays, starting with Saturday's game.

You can find the booth next to the club shop on Quarry Lane. No tickets can be purchased from this window on matchday, although tickets can be purchased from other windows at the ticket booth.

Disabled supporters should view our disabled supporters' section for revelant matchday ticket information.

Supporters can also purchase tickets on the day of the game. The matchday ticket office will be open for fans to buy tickets from 10am until 3pm. Please note that tickets see an increase of £2.50 on matchday.

Our family ticket offer is also available for Saturday's game, which admits one adult and one child for just £18! Supporters that have purchased a family ticket will be seated in our family block, which is located in Block A of the Quarry Lane End. Fans with a family ticket may also be seated in Block B of the Quarry Lane End if demand dictates so.

The club's new fans' zone will be open this Saturday from 12noon. The fans' zone features bars, food, live music, entertainment and much more!

Supporters housed in the Ian Greaves Stand – upper and lower tiers – can leave the stadium at half-time to access the fans’ zone, but will require a stamp on their hand, given at the turnstiles upon exit from the ground.

The stamp is to indicate whether you are housed in the upper or lower tier upon re-entry to One Call Stadium.

The newly-refurbished Sandy’s Bar & Kitchen will open at 9am, serving all-you-can-eat breakfast for just £4.75 until 11.45am.

Following this, the bar will not serve food from its main menu, but a selection of matchday food will be available from 12pm.

The bar will begin to serve food from its main menu after the full-time whistle.

Alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks are available for both home and away supporters, and the bar is located at the rear of the Ian Greaves Stand.

The bar will remain open until 11pm after the match.

Supporters will also be able to purchase the latest edition of our new-look matchday programme The Stag - which features an exclusive interview with midfielder Otis Khan - for just £3 prior to Saturday's game.

The Stag can be purchased from the merchandise stand near Sandy’s Bar & Kitchen, our matchday kiosks, or any mobile programme vendor around One Call Stadium.

The Stags Supporters' Association will also be selling their Stags vs Oldham matchday pin badges for just £4 in and around Sandy's Bar & Kitchen before the game.

Car parking is severely restricted at One Call Stadium and works on a first come, first served basis. All reserved car parking spaces are within the location of the Ian Greaves Stand car park.

Matchday parking costs £5 per car. Please note that the car park shuts 30 minutes prior to kick-off due to safety regulations.

The following sites, owned by Mansfield District Council and with easy access to One Call Stadium are Grove Street, Victoria Street, Garden Road and Church Lane.

Charges are as follows:

Grove St 50p/hr
Victoria St 50p/hr
Garden Rd 50p/hr
Church Lane 80p/hr

All of the above pay and display surface level car parks offer cashless parking via RingGo as an additional way to pay.

Every car park has a unique code so people can either pay over the phone, by text, online or by using a free smartphone app.

Details of how to do this are displayed in each car park. Information about all Mansfield District Council car parks can be found at www.mansfield.gov.uk/carparks.

Where do I go when I get to One Call Stadium?

Hospitality

If you are a hospitality guest, please enter the stadium via the brown double doors to the rear of the Ian Greaves Stand, which is the entrance to our hospitality suites.

The doors are located to the left of the white merchandise stall outside Sandy’s Bar & Kitchen, backing onto the main car park and sign-posted 'The Kevin Bird Suite'.

Media

Members of the media are asked to also head to the entrance to our hospitality suites, where our media steward will provide you with the necessary accreditation.

The required entrance is located to the left of the merchandise stall outside Sandy’s Bar & Kitchen and signposted 'The Kevin Bird Suite'.

Supporters

If you need to collect tickets, please head to the main ticket office on Quarry Lane. For ticket purchases, please visit the matchday ticket office, adjacent to the Quarry Lane Stand, around the corner from the main ticket office.

The Ian Greaves Stand is the main stand at One Call Stadium, which backs onto the main car park.

Away supporters are housed in the North Stand, which can be accessed via Portland Retail Park. Please note: there is no matchday parking at the retail park.

Can't make it to the game? You can follow the action live via our Twitter match updates, which can be found here.

The match centre on mansfieldtown.net will also contain Opta-populated updates, and can be accessed here.

A report of the match will be published on the club website following the full-time whistle, and post-match reaction will be available to view on mansfieldtown.net and iFollow Stags.

iFollow Stags subscribers can listen to full-match commentary of the clash - courtesy of Martin Shaw and Dean Foulkes - by logging into iFollow Stags 15 minutes before kick-off.

Supporters who are blind or visually impaired can take advantage of our fantastic free audio descriptive commentary service.

Provided by Alan March Sport, supporters can listen to commentary from trained audio description broadcasters.

To take advantage of this free service, please visit the entrance to the Kevin Bird Suite at One Call Stadium after 1pm on Saturday.

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Report: Stags 6-1 Oldham Athletic

12 October 2019

Mansfield Town produced a scintillating home display as they condemned nine-man Oldham Athletic to a 6-1 defeat to pick up back-to-back victories in Sky Bet League Two.

The hosts dominated proceedings from the outset with Nicky Maynard at the double, before both Tomas Egert and Filipe Morais were both shown red cards in quick succession.

Tom Hamer then momentarily halved the deficit before Maynard wrapped up his hat-trick on the stroke of half time.

And Mansfield made their two-man advantage count as Mal Benning, Dapo Afolayan and Jimmy Knowles were all on target in the second period to cap a brilliant afternoon of football off in style.

Boss John Dempster made only one change from last Saturday’s victory over Grimsby as Conor Shaughnessy came in for the suspended Hayden White.

Danny Rose was first to be presented with a sight at Gary Woods’ goal but his strike towards the far corner was pushed away to safety, allowing the visitors to clear.

The Stags’ number 32 was then left frustrated after his partner at the top end, Nicky Maynard, launched a quick counter attack.

A loose pass from Tomas Egert allowed Maynard time to spot his teammate’s run – however the eventual chipped effort bounced wide.

Mansfield were seeking to exploit the spaces that the Latics were leaving vacant when Alex MacDonald’s long-distance attempt fell off target.

Then, some crisp build-up play by the Stags ended with Maynard’s dummy hoping to find Otis Khan before Mohamad Sylla intervened.

The midfielder would soon have an effort to shout about, though, after escaping the attentions of two blue shirts and dragging past Woods’ upright.

It was one-way traffic for the opening half-hour, which began to show when Kellan Gordon broke free down the right channel.

Maynard connected with the wing-back’s beautiful delivery from close range to power a header into the far corner and gift his side a deserved lead.

But the forward was not finished there as just three minutes later he found his second.

Brilliant solo work by Khan, who had been lively throughout, gave Maynard the simplest of tasks to roll home from point-blank range.

An affair already bubbling with action soon hit even higher temperatures as the visitors were reduced to nine men in a matter of moments.

Referee Lee Swabey signalled advantage after Morais’ initial challenge before, seconds later, a dangerous, sliding challenge by Egert ensured both were to be punished with one red apiece.

However, the action had only just begun when Hamer pulled one back for the away side.

Alex Iacovitti’s cross received the slightest of touches from Conrad Logan, and with Hamer in the right place at the right time he was able to halve the deficit.

Although, this seemed only to be a minor blemish as Maynard popped up once again four minutes into stoppage time.

The number 11 sealed a classy, first-half hat-trick in style by rounding Woods and rolling into the empty net – much to the delight of the home faithful.

Into the second half and Mansfield expectedly dominated possession with the option to stick or twist.

The latter seemingly appealed to Gordon, whose effort from the edge of the area rose above the bar.

On 56 minutes, the Stags found their fourth courtesy of a huge slice of luck.

Benning made inroads down the left-hand side and watched as his cross took a deflection against David Wheater, wrong-footing Woods to creep over the line.

And 10 minutes thereafter, the hosts made it five.

Despite the Latics’ best defensive efforts, Maynard raced upfield from Oldham’s set-piece before setting substitute Afolayan to notch his maiden goal in amber and blue.

There were worrying signs for Dylan Fage moments later, who had to be stretchered off following a collision with Maynard in the events leading to Mansfield’s fifth goal.

Neal Bishop was then unlucky not to see his curler from range connect with the back of the net following a fine, fingertip save by Woods.

But the Oldham ‘keeper could do nothing when substitute Knowles took aim from 12 yards.

Afolayan was deemed to have been felled by Hamer – giving the 17-year-old his first goal in Sky Bet League Two from the spot as he sent Woods the wrong way with aplomb.

The home side outplayed their opponents throughout to record a massive victory in Sky Bet League Two.

Next up for Mansfield is an away trip to face Forest Green Rovers on Saturday 19 October.

STAGS XI: Logan (GK), Benning, Pearce, Bishop, MacDonald (Afolayan 60’), Khan, Maynard (Knowles 69’), Shaughnessy, Sweeney, Gordon, Rose (Cook 55’).

UNUSED SUBS: Stone (GK), Tomlinson, Hamilton, Smith.

OLDHAM XI: Woods (GK), Iacovitti, Morais, Vera (Stott 39’), Maouche (Fage 62’), Missilou, Sylla, Smith, Egert, Wheater ©, Hamer.

UNUSED SUBS: Zabret (GK), Smith-Brown, Wilson, Adams, Eagles.

REFEREE: Lee Swabey

ASSISTANTS: Anthony Moore & Andrew Aylott

FOURTH OFFICIAL: Wayne Grunnill

ATTENDANCE: 4,368 (441 away)

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