Preview: Stags v Newport

17 November 2023

Mansfield Town face Newport 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 therefore not be able to purchase tickets on matchday, but can purchase tickets up until midnight on Friday (online). 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 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 Ian Greaves Stand and North Stand will be closed 20 minutes before scheduled full-time until visiting supporters' coaches have left the ground.
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.

Calum Macdonald will miss the match through suspension. The full-back picked up his fifth booking of the season in Saturday’s win at Salford.

John-Joe O’Toole (leg) and Stephen Quinn (knee) are nearing returns to training. Both players are targeting Stags’ Bristol Street Motors Trophy game at Burton next week as a possible return.

Ollie Clarke (thigh) and Stephen McLaughlin (groin) are expecetd to return in under two to three weeks.

Forward Lucas Akins will be assessed prior to Saturday’s home encounter.

The referee for Saturday's match is Thomas Kirk. Mr. Kirk will be assisted by Stephen Wade, Kevin Mulraine and fourth official, Karl Buckley.

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 17 November.

Tickets are available to purchase online via www.stagstickets.co.uk until midnight on Friday 17 November.

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

Tickets in the North Stand will only be available to away supporters.

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 with 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

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?

Subscribers - inside the UK and abroad - can watch the match for £10, by purchasing a video match pass.

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

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.

Follow us across our social media accounts to keep fully updated on all areas of a Stags’ matchday. Click the below links to redirect to the corresponding social media account.

Match Previews

Match Reports

Report: Stags 2-0 Newport

18 November 2023

Davis Keillor-Dunn netted a brace as Mansfield saw off Newport County with a much-deserved 2-0 win at One Call Stadium.

The forward took his personal goal tally to 11 goals as Mansfield stretched their unbeaten league run to an impressive 17 games.

This latest triumph was never in doubt as Mansfield controlled possession from start to finish, with the ex-Burton man scoring in either half to seal a fifth successive league victory for the Amber and Blue.

Boss Nigel Clough made one enforced change to the lineup as Baily Cargill replaced the suspended Calum Macdonald at left full-back.

As the game crept into the second minute, Newport forward Omar Bogle wriggled into the area but blasted wide from 16 yards.

Stags were soon ahead from their first serious charge at goal two minutes later.

Midfielder George Maris sent a delightful pass into the path of Rhys Oates on the right flank and after his cross into the box was poorly cleared, Davis Keillor-Dunn capitalised by firing home his tenth goal of the season from 14 yards.

At the other end, Newport had an opening when Louis Reed was dispossessed 25 yards from his own goal, allowing Will Evans to charge forward. But the striker’s effort was blocked by Stags’ defender Aden Flint.

Soon after, Flint looked to turn provider and launched a searching pass to lightning frontman Rhys Oates, who was only a stride away from connecting outside the area.

Stags were applying pressure and almost scored a fine goal on 17 minutes.

Keillor-Dunn showed an excellent first touch to bring down defender Lewis Brunt’s superb 45-yard pass into the box, before seeing his shot claimed by goalkeeper Nick Townsend at the second attempt.

Stags were dominating the ball and Reed was next to try his luck with a curling shot which was stopped en route to goal by a Newport defender.

Mansfield missed the chance to double their advantage on the half-hour mark as Rhys Oates was bundled down in the box after darting past Scot Bennett.

However, Townsend was equal to the penalty kick, pushing away Oates’ strike as Stags were unable to profit from the follow up.

Referee Thomas Kirk then brandished two yellow cards in quick succession with Omar Bogle and manager Graham Coughlan the recipients for persistent foul play and dissent, respectively.

Stags ended the half in the ascendency and in stoppage time, Johnson cleverly beat his man on the right flank to send in a dipping cross which clipped the top of the bar.

Directly from the restart, Newport emerged with a new-found gusto and Stags’ goalkeeper Christy Pym felt the ball for the first time when he was got behind Evans’ direct attempt.

Mansfield’s first attack of the second period was sparked by midfielder Aaron Lewis, who sent Oates darting forward with a low pass. But the frontman’s delivery into the box swept across the goal area.

Lewis had a crack at goal on 51 minutes, as Townsend got down low to beat away with one hand, though the Newport ‘keeper could do little about the effort a minute later as Stags finally netted a second.

Maris split the defence in two with a fine pass, and Keillor-Dunn finished the move with an accomplished strike from 12 yards as Townsend was rooted to the spot.

Keillor-Dunn could have had a hat-trick on 54 as he again breached the Newport defence before curling off target on the right of the box.

Newport didn’t give up the ghost and on the hour Evans saw his bending effort held by Pym after Bogle provided on the inside right flank.

On 68, Brunt made a brilliant block as he flung himself in the way of Evans’ goalbound strike.

Baily Cargill nodded into palms of Townsend following a free-kick before Stags made their first change a minute later with Lucas Akins replacing Rhys Oates in attack.

And it didn’t take Akins long to register a shot on target, swivelling near the penalty spot to fire into Townsend’s grasp.

Maris side-footed over from the edge of the area prior to a double change in the Stags’ camp as the returning Stephen Quinn took to the field, replacing Lewis, and Hiram Boateng was introduced for Maris.

On 83 minutes, Mansfield were gunning for a third goal and Boateng got in on the shooting act by cracking a half-volley narrowly wide from 19 yards.

Keillor-Dunn was determined to take home the matchball and only Townsend prevented him for the prize with a smart save from the forward’s driven 18-yard strike.

In the final two changes of the encounter, Jordan Bowery and Davis Keillor-Dunn made way for James Gale and Will Swan in the 89th minute.

STAGS: Pym, Johnson, Flint, Brunt, Cargill, Reed, Lewis (Quinn 80), Maris (Boateng 80), Keillor-Dunn (Swan 89), Oates (Akins 74), Bowery (Gale 89)

UNUSED SUBS: Flinders, Williams

NEWPORT: Townsend, Payne, Delaney, McLoughlin, Bondswell (Clarke 55), Waite, Morris, Bennett, Wood (Palmer-Holden 50), Bogie, Evans

UNUSED SUBS: Maxted, Thomas, Young, Sanca

REFEREE: Thomas Kirk

ATTENDANCE: 6,877 (223 Newport fans)