Mansfield Matters Podcast

It’s been a funny old week for the Stags as September sets in – Mansfield Town are back to winning ways and the injury crisis is clearing – has John Dempster’s men outlasted the storm, or is it down to divine intervention, following the archbishop of York’s visit to the One Call Stadium today? To find out the answer, just like 00’s pop sensation McFly we’ve got the band back together – why? Well i...

Bubble-wrap sales in Mansfield have soared over the past week as John Dempster’s men have had a real battle on their hands to prevent any more injuries – so much so the hunger of youth has been called upon over the last week, as the Stags drew 0-0 with fellow injury hit side Stevenage, before losing on penalties – AGAIN – to Everton U21s in the EFL Trophy. But within the last two hours John Dempst...

There’s an old saying that pride comes before a fall – and that’s certainly true where Mansfield Town are concerned this week. A proud victory on the road to Carlisle backed up by an immense 45 minutes against Leyton Orient – but perfection doesn’t quite happen for the Stags, who went on to surrender a cast-iron 2-0 lead, to lose 3-2 and send the pendulum swinging back into negativity avenue. And...

Right lads, here’s the game plan – we’ll gift them too easy goals and then stage a comeback. Oh & if one of you can get sent off late on for something stupid, that’d be grand! We imagine that isn’t John Dempster’s actual team talk, but the way this last week’s gone… who knows! After three games, two in the league and one in the cup, the Stags are stuck in a seemingly endless loop of having to claw...

The 2019/20 train has pulled out of the station and upon its first scheduled stop has set the bar high! Defensive errors, penalties, missed-penalties, red cards and unthinkable comebacks were on show, as John Dempster’s men came from two goals down to draw two-all at Newport on the Season’s opening day. In this weeks Mansfield Matters podcast we’ll reflect on the season’s curtain raiser, and ask a...

It only seems like yesterday when our hearts were broken, and our promotion dreams in tatters. What’s sad too, is that that statement is true for more than just the Newport game in the play-offs. Alas the clock has ticked forward and Mansfield Town with a new manager, new players and new ideas are ready to do battle again, as the curtain raises on the Sky Bet League Two 2019-2020 campaign. This we...

The minutes are clocking up. The pre-season fixtures are being ticked off one by one and the heat, in more than one way, is constantly rising – the new season, is just around the cornerThis is the Mansfield Matters podcast, back with a brand new set for series three, following the journey as John Dempster’s men try and go one better and reach their league one intended destination. This week as we...

Next up in our series of former players recalling their time with the Stags, is a man who, without the help of the fans in the first place, would never have donned the amber and blue. Signed in 2010 with the help of supporters group “The 12th Stag” – Paul enjoyed a season and a half on the good ship Mansfield, which during his time on board, certainly sailed choppy waters. Paul talks us through th...

Football is back.... ish! ... And so is the Mansfield Matters Podcast....... Well actually Craig, Nathan, Cam and Simon were sat around waiting to record 'Stags Stories' and were naturally talking about everything currently happening with the Stags whilst they're out in Portugal, so Craig just hit the record button! Enjoy this bit of bonus content! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more i...

Continuing our brand new series where Stags fans can hear from former famous faces of the club, we’re back with part two of our interview with two-time Stag Martin Riley - who joins us at the Capo Lounge, to reflect on his three seasons at the club across two different spells. Picking up with the Stags’ beaten in the conference play-off semi-final, Riley explains more about his departure and how t...

Kicking off our brand new series where Stags fans can hear from former famous faces of the club, two-time Stag Martin Riley joins us at the Capo Lounge, to reflect on his three seasons at the club across two different spells. In Part One, the popular central defender takes us back to the 2011/12 campaign where under the stewardship of Paul Cox, Mansfield Town reached the conference play-offs, losi...

A few weeks ago we hoped that tonight’s show would be the one before Wembley, but alas broken dreams, missed opportunities and in the end – missed penalties meant league two was on the cards once more. The pace of football is quicker than CJ Hamilton at times and now a mere ten days from that defeat we have a new manager AND assistant at the helm ready to try and deliver the league one dream. Here...

When Mansfield Town crashed out of the play-offs on Sunday via a penalty shootout, few would have thought that despite a failure to achieve promotion that David Flitcroft would be sacked as Stags manager – alas, Football is a ruthless game and today, Flitcroft and his staff were dismissed of their duties, as a new dawn begins – a Dempster Dawn! Tonight in this emergency show Craig, Nathan and Cam...

You know, anyone can climb a mountain – but only those with grit, determination and bravery will reach the top to be able to appreciate the view from the summit. Yes they’ll be stumbles and falls along the way – but it’s the response to those falls which define your character, and after Mansfield’s 1-1 draw with Newport last night – I’m proud to say that David Flitcroft’s men, are mountain climber...

Eight years ago today [May 7th] Mansfield Town were at Wembley Stadium in the FA Trophy final – a season which ended in heartbreak, well following Saturday’s 1-0 defeat to MK Dons which came at the cost of automatic promotion, the Stags must now fight it out to return to Wembley – hoping for the elusive happily ever after. In this bonus play-off special episode myself and Nathan reflect on the res...

45 Games, 20 Wins, 16 Draws and nine defeats – but non of them mean anything now. Following a defeat last weekend at home to Stevenage and midweek results – the equation is simple: Avoid defeat and Mansfield Town are a League One Club. Can we get over the line? Where does CJ need to play? Will training at St George's Park help? Are MK Dons playing mind games and will there be a happily ever after....

Watching Mansfield Town should come with a health warning – as with every single game the pressure to succeed ramps up and the danger of failure intensifies, and over the Easter weekend, boy did we feel that! A magnificent win over Morecambe on Friday sent the Stags to Oldham with a real buzz on Monday, but poor defending and another lack of concentration saw the Stags beaten and back to third. Wi...

The net is closing in on the Sky Bet League Two season and it’s still all to play for in the race for promotion, as a 1-1 draw at Northampton drops the Stags to third – with just a solitary point’s breathing space between a place in the automatics and the play-offs. With two games coming up over the Easter Bank Holiday Weekend Stags fans are bursting at the seams, not with having indulged on too m...

The awards and accolades have been handed out at the EFL’s annual celebration – but with five games to, the champagne is very much on ice for the Stags, who despite sitting in second place thanks to last weekend’s results – know anything can happen, in the the wonderful world of football. Coming up on the MM Podcast this week we reflect on last weekends narrow 1-0 win over Cambridge and the turn o...

The only impossible journey is the one you never begin. – Well Mansfield Town have been on some journey this season, no more than Saturday where it took the 224 mile trip to Exeter to rediscover ourselves and bounce back into a more positive position to challenge for promotion, with just six games left to play in the mamouth journey of a league two campaign. The Stags’ luck on the pitch as they si...

The games are ticking down and Mansfield Town are falling down the league table – as a uninterested, commitment lacking display against Crewe ends in defeat meaning with now seven games to go – questions are being asked about the Stags chances. This weeks the players have had an open chat to try and refocus their minds but will that be enough to re-light the fire and can David Flitcroft’s men be g...

The race for promotion is hotting up and things are getting tight at the top. Whilst there may be ten points difference between Lincoln in first and us in third, only goal difference seperates us from MK Dons in fourth, with a marginal gap of points putting the slightest bit of light between the Stags and those in the remaining play-off places. This week on the Mansfield Matters podcast the pressu...

We're down to the final nine games and things couldn't be tighter in the race for promotion - so it's not the time for Mansfield to need to have a team meeting and play for a draw at Crawley on a Tuesday night just to reset themselves... but that's what happened on the pitch this week! Off of it, great news, as John Radford makes the final payment to the former owner so that we now have a place to...

On World Book Day children across the region have dressed up as their literacy favourites - well like Martin Luther, we have a dream... that next year, they'll dress up as 'Dave' from the best seller 'David Flitcroft: Galvanized' Mansfield Town's book is reaching the good bit, but will it be a happy ending or does a devious twist lay in wait?! This week we reflect on the 4-2 win over Cheltenham, t...

With 12 games to go in Sky Bet League Two, we've reached the anniversary of David Flitcroft's appointment as Stags boss (ish) - so this week, we're reflecting on how time is a great healer and learning why patience and determination really do pay off. This week we also reflect on the 1-0 win over Forest Green and take a look at who can carry the goalscoring baton, now Tyler Walker is suspended, an...