Preview: Stags v Walsall

27 October 2023

Mansfield Town face Walsall 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.

Rhys Oates (ankle) is expected to return on 07 November.

Stephen Quinn (December) and Elliott Hewitt (February/March) will be out for a longer period of time with knee injuries.

Baily Cargill will return from suspension this Saturday after receiving his fifth yellow card of the season at Notts County earlier this month.

Defender Alfie Kilgour will miss the rest of the campaign with a ruptured Achilles.

The referee for Saturday's match is David Rock. Mr. Rock will be assisted by Richard Woodward, Alistair Nelson and fourth official, Grant Taylor.

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 27 October.

Tickets are available to purchase online via www.stagstickets.co.uk until midnight on Friday 27 October.

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?

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

iFollow Stags subscribers (UK only) can hear live full match commentary of our clash against Walsall 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.

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 2-1 Walsall

28 October 2023

Jordan Bowery scored his first goal of the season as Mansfield overcame spirited Walsall with a hard-fought 2-1 win at One Call Stadium.

Stags extended their remarkable unbeaten record to 19 games in all competitions.

The path to victory was far from easy as Walsall made it difficult for Nigel Clough’s side, hustling and harassing throughout the 90.

Aden Flint put Mansfield ahead following a corner before former Stags’ midfielder Ryan Stirk drew Walsall level in the second-half.

But Bowery’s 72^nd minute goal proved decisive.

Stags were unchanged from Tuesday’s 4-1 winning rout at Harrogate.

Defender Baily Cargill, who missed the encounter due to suspension, returned to the substitutes’ bench.

Mansfield registered the game’s first shot inside the fourth minute. Midfielder Lewis Reed sent a delightful pass on to the right channel for Jordan Bowery, who found Ollie Clarke 18 yards from goal. But his well-struck effort was quickly charged down by a Walsall defender.

Silky forward Davis Kellor-Dunn then tried his luck after a mazy run towards the middle before directing a 22-yard attempt straight down the throat of Saddlers’ goalkeeper Owen Evans.

And despite Walsall pressing well in the early stages, Stags managed to find a way through via a 16^th minute corner.

Following George Maris’ delivery to the far side of the goal area, a towering Aden Flint headed down into the six-yard box, with goalkeeper Evans having to punch away at the second attempt. Akins was quickest to react to nod back into the goal area, and Keillor-Dunn got a deft touch to send it into Flint’s path to smash home from two yards.

Stags were forced into a 29^th minute change when Lucas Akins appeared to pick up an injury and was replaced by James Gale.

Stags began to press their foot on the accelerator and on 36 minutes Calum Macdonald laid an inviting low ball across the box for Maris to blast goalwards, which missed the target with the aid of a deflection.

Moments later, Evans had to beat away Keillor-Dunn’s strike before the referee brandished two yellow cards for fouls in quick succession: one to Stags’ defender Lewis Brunt and the other to Walsall’s Tom Knowles.

In stoppage time at the end of the first-half, Saddlers’ frontman Danny Johnson turned to shoot well wide from 22 yards in a rare strike at the home goal.

Mansfield should have doubled their advantage three minutes later when Gale robbed Donervon Daniels of possession to break into the Walsall box. But his square pass for Maris could have been more precise, and the midfielder was unable to unleash an effective shot.

At the break, Lewis Brunt was replaced by Baily Cargill, in Stags’ second change.

Two minutes into the second-half, Mansfield saw another opportunity go begging when Aaron Lewis fired over the bar from 15 yards following neat footwork by Keillor-Dunn to provide the assist.

Walsall drew level on 52 minutes with their first shot on goal.

Tom Knowles found space on the inside right to cross into the box and an unmarked Ryan Stirk was allowed space and time from seven yards to pick his spot against his former club.

Brandon Comley was then shown a yellow card for a foul on Keillor-Dunn on 59 minutes, before Gale was next to enter the notebook for simulation a minute later.

As the contest ticked past the hour, Stirk let fly from 30 yards, but his rasping drive flew over the bar.

On 63 minutes, Will Swan climbed off the bench for Mansfield to replace George Maris.

Walsall had been probing but Bowery embarked on a promising run on 70 minutes before sending a brilliant ball into the box, though no one was able to meet it.

Bowery wasn’t to be denied on 72 minutes as Stags restored their lead.

Swan did well to pick him out on the right of the box, and Stags’ number 9 hit a shot which cracked against the ground and in off the post.

Mansfield regained their confidence and Swan saw a right-footed attempt fly wide soon after.

Walsall made their first change on 78 minutes, as Isaac Hutchinson made way for Douglas James-Taylor and a minute later, Ollie Clarke’s last act was to lash a ferocious 25 yard shot narrowly wide before being replaced by Hiram Boateng.

Stirk was then substituted for Jamille Matt as Walsall looked for a way back in.

Saddlers’ goalkeeper Evans was required on 84 minutes to beat away a curling effort from Keillor-Dunn and Boateng saw his hit from closer range well blocked minutes later.

Stags then managed the game well in the closing stages to secure a fourth successive victory in all competitions.

STAGS: Pym, Bowery, Flint, Brunt (Cargill HT), Macdonald, Reed, Lewis, Clarke (Boateng 79), Maris (Swan 63), Keillor-Dunn, Akins (Gale 29)

UNUSED SUBS: Flinders, Johnson, Williams

WALSALL: Evans, Okagbue, Gordon, Daniels, Riley, Hutchinson (James-Taylor 78), Knowles (Allen 88), Comley, Stirk (Matt 83), Tierney, Johnson

UNUSED SUBS: Smith, Foulkes, Griffiths

REFEREE: David Rock
ATTENDANCE: 7,641 (778 Walsall fans)