Preview: Stags v Barrow

22 September 2023

Mansfield Town face Barrow 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. 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.
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.

George Maris will be assessed prior to the fixture. The midfielder took a knock to his knee in the win at Accrington Stanley earlier this month.

John-Joe O’Toole will also be evaluated ahead of matchday. The defender received a late challenge, forcing him to be withdrawn in Stags’ Central League Cup match against Notts County last week.

The referee for Saturday's match is Marc Edwards. Mr. Edwards will be assisted by Graeme Fyvie, Oliver Bickle and fourth official, Farai Hallam.

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 22 September.

Tickets are available to purchase online via www.stagstickets.co.uk until midnight on Friday 22 September.

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 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

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?

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 Barrow 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 1-0 Barrow

23 September 2023

Ollie Clarke’s first goal of the season helped Mansfield continue their unbeaten start to the campaign with a gutsy 1-0 win at home to Barrow.

The Stags midfielder rifled home a low drive on 72 minutes to send the home fans into raptures in an otherwise low-key affair at One Call Stadium.

Stags were not at their free-flowing best but will take heart from earning maximum points against a spirited Barrow side who had two real chances of their own.

The Cumbria outfit ended the game with ten men when Junior Tiensia was given his marching orders for a late tackle on midfielder Aaron Lewis.

Two changes were made from last Saturday’s 1-1 draw at Colchester. Midfielder Ollie Clarke and forward Will Swan replaced Hiram Boateng and James Gale in the line-up.

Barrow carved out the game’s first opening inside two minutes. Jamie Proctor took a nice touch to drive through the middle and find Emile Acquah, who laid it to Robbie Gotts on the left to arrow a shot over from 20 yards.

Stags began to press and midfielder Louis Reed came close to a breakthrough on 10 minutes when he burst into the box, only to see his left-footed effort deflect behind for a corner.

The Bluebirds charged forward to create a chance of their own two minutes later. Junior Tiensia sped away on the inside left before firing narrowly beyond the post.

Barrow had the better of the early opportunities and Emile Acquah curled an unlikely effort into the palms of Christy Pym with 19 minutes played.

Midway through the first-half, defender Aden Flint uncharacteristically misplaced a forward pass, but he made amends moments later by flying in the way of Gotts’ thunderous strike.

The visitors continued to threaten and missed a gilt-edge chance on 24 minutes when Acquah skied over from eight yards following Gotts’ assist on the left.

The game entered its slumber in the next 20 minutes as neither side were able to force a serious opening.

Six minutes after the restart, Stags showed greater attacking intent and Flint found the advancing Bowery with a good ball on the right channel, but Mansfield’s number nine directed his cross to close to the goalkeeper at the near post.

On 55, Barrow made a double change before the visitors squandered a real chance from a corner. After Dean Campbell drifted in from the right, Rory Feely headed over from close range to let Stags off the hook.

At the other end, Mansfield saw their best opportunity fly over the bar as Bowery prodded it for Swan to hit a venomous 15-yard shot goalwards, which whizzed into the Quarry Lane End with the aid of a deflection.

Aaron Lewis endeavoured to get Stags on the front foot with a perfectly timed challenge outside his own box before slipping it to Davis Keillor-Dunn on the right. And his searching pass looked to seek out Swan who – blinded by the sun – took a heavy touch which allowed visiting goalkeeper Paul Farman to race out of his goal and gather in the nick of time.

Stags’ goalkeeper Christy Pym was called upon on 67 minutes when he got down low to substitute Ged Garner’s low drive from outside the box.

Lewis then played a short pass infield on 70 minutes and Macdonald received the game’s first yellow card when he went in late on Feely.

The match exploded into life as Stags took the lead on 72 minutes.

Swan did well on the left to hold the ball before picking out the onrushing Ollie Clarke who lashed the ball low into the bottom corner from 20 yards.

With 13 minutes remaining, Clarke received a standing ovation as he was replaced by George Maris while Macdonald made way for Baily Cargill.

Lewis and Gotts were both entered the referee’s notebook after an altercation before Barrow made another double substitution.

And Barrow then had a mountain to climb as the visitors were reduced to ten men on 84 minutes when Junior Tiensia saw red for a late challenge on Lewis.

Stags made another two changes as Lewis and Swan made way for Boateng and Gale.

In time added on, Keillor-Dunn produced a fine stop with a well-hit attempt from 20 yards and later on, Akins saw an acrobatic shot blocked. And after seven minutes of injury time, Stags professionally saw it out until the final whistle.

STAGS: Pym, Bowery, Flint, Brunt, Macdonald (Cargill 77), Reed, Lewis (Boateng 85), Clarke (Maris 77), Keillor-Dunn, Swan (Gale 85), Akins

UNUSED SUBS: Flinders, Williams, Cooper

BARROW: Farman, Campbell (Campbell 82), Ray, Canavan, Worrall (Garner 56), Spence (Foley 73), Proctor, Gotts (Telford 82), Acquah (Chester 56), Feely, Tiensia

UNUSED SUB: Lillis

REFEEE: Marc Edwards

ATTENDANCE: 6,714 (156 Barrow fans)

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