The Mansfield Town Sentinel
Squad24 Aug 2026
A fracture rules Baily Cargill out for 128 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
Baily Cargill asks to leave Mansfield Town
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Joe Gardner in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Mansfield Town this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Nathan Moriah-Welsh falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Match22 Aug 2026
Joe Gardner sends Mansfield Town past Luton Town
It finished 2‑1, and it was Joe Gardner’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Mansfield Town.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
Mansfield Town supporters have found a favourite in Joe Gardner
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Joe Gardner has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Will Evans in the eights
A performance of 8.15 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Tyler Roberts
Successful dribbles: 13. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Will Evans finally opens his account
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Mansfield Town have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
In brief
- Market Talks stall between Mansfield Town and David Murray
- Player ratings The referee tires of Ryan Sweeney