Preview: Stags v Grimsby

21 March 2023

The Stags are at One Call Stadium tomorrow night for a Sky Bet League Two clash with Grimsby Town (7.45pm kick-off). Here’s all you need to know…

The club advises supporters to enter the stadium as early as possible once turnstiles open at 6.30pm.
Pyrotechnic detection dogs will be on duty outside of the home and away turnstiles to ensure the safety of fellow supporters.
The One Call Stadium car park will be closed 15 minutes prior to full-time until footfall reaches a safe level to enable supporters to leave the ground on foot.
The gate between the North Stand and Ian Greaves Stand will be closed 15 minutes prior to full-time until Grimsby Town’s supporters’ coaches have left the ground.

Forward Rhys Oates and captain Ollie Clarke will be assessed ahead of tomorrow's game after sustaining knocks at Stockport County on Saturday.

Wednesday’s Sky Bet League Two clash will come too early for right-back Callum Johnson after he picked up a calf injury away at AFC Wimbledon on 04 March.

Midfielder Louis Reed is making good progress with his knee injury but is unlikely to feature tomorrow.

Full-back Stephen McLaughlin was withdrawn on 83 minutes at Northampton Town last week and will be assessed ahead of tomorrow.

Defender John-Joe O’Toole (foot) and forward Will Swan (ankle) will be sidelined for the remainder of the campaign.

Midfielder Anthony Hartigan is also likely to miss the rest of the season.

Stephen Quinn will miss Wednesday’s encounter due to suspension.

The referee for the game is Tom Reeves. Mr. Reeves will be assisted by Paul Newhouse, Gareth Viccars and fourth official, Stephen Wade.

Tickets are available to purchase online via stagstickets.co.uk or by calling 01623 482 482 (option 1).

The club strongly advises supporters to purchase tickets in advance of matchday to avoid prospective queueing at the matchday ticket office/main ticket office.

Tickets can be purchased on matchday up until kick-off (7.45pm) online and in person at the ticket office (in pre-designated seats only).

Family tickets – priced at £23 – are now available to purchase online by selecting one adult and one junior in blocks A or B of the Quarry Lane Stand. Once this has been added to the shopping cart, the discount will be automatically applied.

The prices for purchasing tickets in advance of matchday are as follows:

	Ian Greaves Upper	Ian Greaves Lower	Quarry Lane
Adult	£23	£22	£20
Senior (65+)	£20	£19	£18
Young Adult - 18-21	£18	£17	£16
Early Junior 13-17	£15	£14	£13
Early Junior 07-12	£11	£10	£9
Family (1 adult 1 child)	N/A	N/A	£23
Hospitality - Purchase	£60	N/A	N/A
Hospitality - Upgrade	£40	N/A	N/A

Matchday prices are as follows:

	Ian Greaves Upper	Ian Greaves Lower	Quarry Lane
Adult	£25	£24	£22
Senior	£22	£21	£20
Young Adult - 18-21	£20	£19	£18
Early Junior 13-17	£16	£15	£14
Early Junior 07-12	£12	£11	£10
Family (1 adult 1 child)	N/A	N/A	£23
Hospitality - Purchase	£60	N/A	N/A
Hospitality - Upgrade	£40	N/A	N/A

Parking is unfortunately unavailable at One Call Stadium.

All reserved car parking spaces are within the location of the Ian Greaves Stand car park. 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'.

Sandy’s Bar & Kitchen - at the rear of the Ian Greaves Stand - will be open from 12pm.

The main menu will be served until 4pm followed by the matchday menu, being served from 5.30pm.

Our Fans’ Zone bar - located at the rear of the Ian Greaves Stand - will be open from 6pm.

Supporters based in the UK and overseas can watch the game live! Purchase your match pass now for just £10 here.

You can follow the action live via our Twitter match updates, which can be found here.

Commentary for the visually impaired will be provided by Alan March Sport. Collect your headsets from the Kevin Bird Suite/Hospitality entrance at the rear of the Ian Greaves Stand.

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.

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Match Previews

Match Reports

Report: Stags 0-0 Grimsby

22 March 2023

Mansfield and Grimsby were forced to share the spoils in a hard-fought encounter at One Call Stadium.

Grimsby enjoyed the better of the exchanges in the first-half and Mansfield were much improved in the second period.

Boss Nigel Clough made one change from Saturday’s 1-1 draw at Stockport as forward Rhys Oates replaced Kieran Wallace in the lineup.

Inside the opening minute, Grimsby tried to set a front-foot tempo as Andy Smith hit a speculative effort which goalkeeper Christy Pym comfortably gathered at his near post.

And the Stags’ shot-stopper was called upon more significantly two minutes later when John McAtee got the better of Riley Harbottle to advance one-on-one with Pym, but the Peterborough loanee got down low to his left to make an excellent stop.

Grimsby continued to threaten and Stags were fortunate to see Niall Maher’s ball flash across the face of their goal, with no-one in a black and white shirt able to connect.

Stags began to get a foothold in the game and crosses into the box from Elliott Hewitt and Hiram Boateng, from right and left respectively, attempted to send a warning shot across the Mariners’ bows.

Grimsby though were soon causing problems, this time from corners.

First, a flag-kick into the goal mouth spun off the boots of Lucas Akins and similarly off Mariners’ defender Luke Waterfall as he attempted to line up a cleaner effort.

The towering centre-half had an even better chance from the subsequent corner moments later when he powered a header goalwards, which Pym superbly stopped on his goalline.

The all-action start continued and Keillor-Dunn did well to find Akins 20 yards from goal, who – after controlling smartly - lashed a strike narrowly over the bar.

On 20 minutes, Stags were relieved to see the ball clip back off the woodwork after McAtee’s deep cross deceived everyone.

Three minutes later, Akins showed fine strength to hold off his marker before squaring it to Boateng who lashed over from 22 yards and soon after, Keillor-Dunn cracked a 27 yard free-kick off target.

On 35 minutes, Keillor-Dunn displayed fine skill to sweep a dangerous cross from the right flank, but a pack of advancing players were unable to meet it inside the goal area.

Grimsby then missed three golden chances to take the lead, all within a heart’s beat.

Andy Smith broke the offside trap, only for Riley Harbottle to make a superb last-ditch challenge near the penalty spot as Smith was set to pull the trigger. McAtee then followed up with a shot which spun into the path of Waterfall. But the defender couldn’t make the most of a glorious chance and blasted wide from the edge of the six-yard box.

Eight minutes after the restart, referee Tom Reeves brandished the game’s first yellow card when Niall Maher hacked down a darting Rhys Oates outside the box.

And from the resulting 22-yard free-kick, Boating’s curler cannoned off Waterfall to spin behind for a corner.

Stags upped the ante and Oates did well to find Akins who turned 10 yards from goal to see his shot immediately blocked, before Hewitt sent a 20-yard piledriver over the angle.

Second-half chances were at a premium but Jordan Bowery managed to force Max Crocombe into a diving save after a mazy run down the left saw him cut inside and fire towards the far corner of the goal.

In a rare second period attempt for the Mariners, substitute Harry Clifton fired a low drive wide and then at the other end Rhys Oates watched as his effort clipped a Grimsby defender to trickle behind for a corner.

With 82 minutes played, both sides made a double change. For Mansfield, forward Danny Johnson and the versatile Jason Law replaced James Perch and Hiram Boateng.

Keillor-Dunn and Johnson both had half attempts sail off target in the dying minutes, before the referee blew for full-time.

STAGS: Pym, Hewitt, Harbottle, Kilgour, Perch (Johnson 83, Bowery, Clarke, Boateng (Law 83), Keillor-Dunn, Oates, Akins

UNUSED SUBS: Flinders, Anderson, Wauchope, Wallace, Gale

GRIMSBY: Crocombe, Emmanuel, Waterfall, Smith, Maher, Glennon, Holohan, Morris, McAtee (O’Neill 82), Lloyd (Khan 82), Taylor (Clifton 70)

UNUSED SUBS: Efete, Hunt, Orsi, Khouri

REFEREE: Tom Reeves

ATTENDANCE: 7,569 (1,102 Grimsby supporters)