Preview: Stags v Stockport

24 August 2023

Mansfield Town face Stockport County this Saturday in a Sky Bet League Two contest at One Call Stadium (3pm kick-off). Here's all you need to know...

Please note that One Call Stadium is a cashless Stadium. Cash is not accepted anywhere in the ground on matchdays or during the week.
The club advises supporters to enter the stadium as early as possible once turnstiles open at 1.30pm.
Saturday’s fixture is an all-ticket affair. Supporters will not be able to purchase tickets on matchday. Click here for more details.
Pyrotechnic detection dogs will be on duty outside of the home and away turnstiles to ensure the safety of fellow supporters.
The gate between the Ian Greaves Stand and the North Stand will be shut at 2.45pm on Saturday until 3pm. The gate will then be closed 15 minutes before the scheduled full-time to allow Stockport's fan coaches to leave the ground.
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.
Portland Retail Park have politely asked us to remind supporters that parking is not permitted on their site on a matchday.
Are you a first-time visitor to One Call Stadium? If so, you may wish to check out our useful first-time guide.

Defender Baily Cargill (hamstring) and midfielder Stephen Quinn (knee) will be assessed prior to the encounter.

Defender Alfie Kilgour will miss the rest of the season with a ruptured Achilles but has had his surgery as the 25-year-old begins his rehabilitation.

Callum Johnson (hamstring), Lewis Reed (calf) and Hiram Boateng (groin) will also miss the fixture.

The referee for Saturday's match is Ollie Yates. Mr. Yates will be assisted by Kevin Morris, Ian Stankovic and fourth official, Marc Wilson.

This is an all-ticket match.

In order to maximise the capacity of One Call Stadium, the decision to transfer to all-ticket means that tickets cannot be purchased on the day of the game but allows approximately 700 additional tickets to be made available for home supporters.

Supporters will be able to collect their tickets on the day of the game, however, purchases need to be completed in person at the ticket office or via telephone (01623 482 482, option 1) by 5pm on Friday 25 August.

Tickets are available to purchase online via www.stagstickets.co.uk until midnight on Friday 25 August.

The decision to transfer to all-ticket applies to home supporters only.

Moreover, with a high demand for tickets this weekend, the club is eager to ensure that as many people as possible can enjoy Saturday’s match.

With this in mind, the club kindly asks season ticket holders who are unable to attend this weekend’s game to consider donating their seat back to the club for this match.

Season ticket holders can do so by e-mailing their name, stand, block and seat to ticketoffice@mansfieldtown.net

Supporters are reminded that One Call Stadium operates an allocated seating policy.

Supporters therefore must be seated in accordance to the seat issued on their purchased match ticket.

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

	Ian Greaves Upper	Ian Greaves Lower	Quarry Lane
Adult	£24	£23	£21
Senior (65+)	£21	£20	£19
Young Adult - 18-21	£19	£18	£17
Early Junior 13-17	£16	£15	£14
Early Junior 07-12	£12	£11	£10
Under 7	FREE	FREE	FREE
Family (1 adult 1 child)			£24
Hospitality - Purchase Adult	£70
Hospitality - Upgrade Adult*	£55
Hospitality - Purchase U16	£55
Hospitality - Upgrade U16*	£40

*Upgrade only available to season ticket holders

The club’s family ticket offer - which allows one adult and one child to watch a match for just £24 - can be purchased via telephone on 01623 482 482 (option 1) or in person at the Stags' ticket office on Quarry Lane.

Family tickets can also be bought online (when selecting an adult and a child in block A of the Quarry Lane Stand). Purchase yours now by clicking here.

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 Fans' zone bar/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/Fans’ Zone bar outside Sandy’s Bar & Kitchen and signposted 'The Kevin Bird Suite'.

Sandy's Bar & Kitchen will be open from 12pm.

The matchday menu will be served from 12.30pm.

The Fan Zone Bar will be open from 12.30pm.

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.

Unable to make it to the game on Saturday?

iFollow Stags subscribers (UK only) can hear live full match commentary of our clash against Stockport for just £2.50.

Commentary of the contest will be provided by Martin Shaw and Dean Foulkes. Coverage starts approximately seven minutes before kick-off.

Overseas subscribers can watch the match for £10, by purchasing a match pass.

You can follow all the action from the fixture live via our Twitter match updates here.

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

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

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Match Previews

Match Reports

Report: Stags 3-2 Stockport

26 August 2023

Mansfield Town staged a superb second-half comeback to see off Stockport County and maintain Stags’ unbeaten start to the campaign.

The amber and blue trailed 2-1 at the break but a sensational second-half display saw Nigel Clough’s side turn on the style as Stockport were penned inside their own half for large periods.

George Maris, and a brace from Davis Keillor-Dunn inflicted the damage in a highly-entertaining contest.

And the scoreline could have been greater had it not been for a string of first-class saves from Stockport goalkeeper Ben Hinchliffe.

Referee Ollie Yates delayed kick-off by 15 minutes to allow the pitch to recover following a torrential downpour in Mansfield around 1pm.

Defender George Williams – who signed in the summer from Cambridge United – made his full debut at right-back, replacing the injured Baily Cargill.

Will Swan made way for Rhys Oates in attack as part of two changes from last weekend’s 1-1 draw at Grimsby.

Stockport made the perfect start to the encounter, taking the lead inside the sixth minute.

Stags were undone through the middle and when Will Collar found Louie Barry on the left of the box, the Aston Villa loanee did the rest with an accomplished finish into the bottom left hand corner.

Mansfield tried to respond two minutes later as George Maris directed a low effort narrowly wide of the far post, evading the outstretched leg of Lucas Akins outside the goal area.

With 11 minutes played, Oates sped away on the right before planting a dangerous ball across the penalty area. And Davis Keillor-Dunn was set to pull the trigger 10 yards from goal, but for an excellent sliding interception from defender Akil Wright.

Stags’ pressure paid off on the quarter-of-an-hour mark.

Oates again embarked on a mazy run before being stopped in his tracks inside the box. And as the ball came out to Stephen Quinn on the edge of the box the Irishman swept a lovely low ball into the centre for Maris to strike first-time beyond goalkeeper Ben Hinchliffe.

Nigel Clough’s side turned up the heat and Lucas Akins was next to spark danger when he delivered a low ball into the goal area, but Stockport managed to turn it behind for a corner.

Stags’ goalkeeper Christy Pym was called upon after 25 minutes to deny Tanto Olaofe who danced his way to the byline before the shot-stopper raced out to spread himself and stop the strike with his legs.

But he could do little about the effort from the resulting corner.

Ibou Touray drifted the flag-kick in to the box and County defender Fraser Horsfall towered above everyone to head home six yards.

On 28 minutes, Stags smashed the woodwork when George Williams’ cross found Keillor-Dunn in the middle of the box to rattle a venomous attempt against the bar.

Hinchliffe was well behind a low 20-yard hit from Oates as Mansfield again looked for a leveller.

Stags almost conceded an unorthodox goal on 41 minutes when goalkeeper Christy Pym raced out of his area to clear the ball and was dispossessed after trying to round Louie Barry. But his blushes were spared when Barry lofted a weak 35-yard effort off target with an open goal in front of him.

Oates again started another Stags’ move two minutes after the break. From the halfway line, he allowed Keillor-Dunn to burst forward and find Lucas Akins, whose right-footed shot was blocked just inside the box.

Hinchliffe comfortably gathered Calum Macdonald’s long-range hit after 52 minutes, before Stags’ midfielder Louis Reed was the first name into the referee’s notebook for a foul inside his own half.

On 61, forward Will Swan was introduced for George Williams who had received a whack in the face.

Four minutes later, Hinchliffe saved at point-blank range from Keillor-Dunn’s low drive and made an even better stop on 69.

Stags were probing and carved out a terrific move on the left which ended with Hinchliffe saving a rifled hit from Keillor-Dunn.

Hinchliffe came to the rescue moments later when he turned away Maris’ powerful hit, but he was helpless to deny Stags’ leveller.

From a short corner on 70 minutes, Keillor-Dunn struck low and his deflected shot deceived Hinchliffe to his right to trickle over the line.

Mansfield were dominating and Maris was again denied by Hinchliffe when he received a pass from Akins to twist and turn before seeing his shot turned behind by the in-form stopper.

On 77, Akins and Reed then lashed successive hits at goal – both being blocked by a defiant Stockport defence – as Stags piled on the pressure.

It was relentless attacking play from Mansfield and they finally took the lead on 79 minutes through Keillor-Dunn.

Receiving the ball from Stephen Quinn 15 yards from goal, the forward curled a beautiful effort inside the right of the upright to send the Stags’ fans into ecstasy.

On 85 minutes, with Mansfield managing the game consummately, Ollie Clarke and debutant Lewis Brunt replaced Keillor-Dunn and Quinn.

With four of the six allocated stoppage time minutes played, George Maris received a standing ovation as he left the field to be replaced by George Cooper.

And in the dying seconds, Swan saw a one-on-one effort stopped by Hinchliffe, before Stags’ magnificent fightback was confirmed when Ollie Yates blew for full-time to end a breathless encounter.

STAGS: Pym, Williams (Swan 61), Bowery, Flint, Macdonald, Reed, Maris (Cooper 90+4), Quinn (Clarke 85), Keillor-Dunn (Brunt 85), Oates, Akins

UNUSED SUBS: Flinders, Wauchope, Abdullah

STOCKPORT: Hinchcliffe, Knoyle, Touray, Wright, Horsfall (Crankshaw 83), Madden (Rydel 74), Collar (Evans 74), Pye, Croasdale, Barry (Powell 83), Olaofe

UNUSED SUBS: Smith, Mee, Johnson

REFEREE: Ollie Yates

ATTENDANCE: 7,433 (969 Stockport fans)

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