The Mansfield Town Sentinel
Squad15 Jan 2029
A knee injury of the worst kind for Nathan Moriah-Welsh
24 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Mansfield Town lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad15 Jan 2029
A fracture rules Daniel Davis out for 22 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Mansfield Town will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad15 Jan 2029
Liam Roberts keeps Mansfield Town in it on his own
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Player ratings15 Jan 2029
Both of them Emilio Lawrence's — 9.04
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.04, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Market15 Jan 2029
Francesco Castaldo has said yes to Melbourne Victory
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Mansfield Town have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Squad15 Jan 2029
Defences have started doubling up on Emilio Lawrence
17 goals and a season average of 7.38 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
Market15 Jan 2029
Sam Harrison hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Mansfield Town can pretend not to have heard.
Transfer targets15 Jan 2029
The paperwork begins on Dan Martin
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Mansfield Town have done the hard part with Colchester United, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Transfer targets15 Jan 2029
Mansfield Town rebuffed over Brad Young
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Bristol Rovers have kept their man, and Mansfield Town go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
In brief
- The terraces The crowd has taken to George Brown
- Match Mansfield Town get the job done against Queens Park Rangers
- The dugout No hiding place for Jack Shepherd