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B U L L S E Y Ewww.afcmansfield.net|PAGE1 Official match programme of AFC Mansfield Season 2020/21 | Issue 01 | £2 TODAY’S MATCH SPONSOR vs Sherwood colliery tuesday 1 September 2020 | 19:45 Emirates fa cup extra preliminary round

Page 2 | Bullseye Match Day ProgrammeContents 3 Chairman’s Report 5 From the Dugout 6 As It Stands 9 Meet the Team 10 Stat attack 13 Match Report: Swallownest 14-16 groundhopping part 1 19 In The Hotseat: Jordan Annable 20 Match Report: Harworth colliery 24-25 The Opposition 26 About the bulls Back page Today’s Teams

www.afcmansfield.net |PPaAgGeE33 Chairman’s Report After months of inactivity Mansfield. due to covid 19 it is great to be playing football again , We have recently started selling writes club Chairman Andrew sponsorship for the new season Saunders... and we have plenty of opportunities for you to get behind the club with Good Evening everyone and player sponsorships from as little a big AFC Mansfield welcome as £65.00 for the season. If you to the players officials have a business and you wish to and supporters from our near promote it an advertising board is neighbours Sherwood Colliery for ideal just contact our Commercial tonight’s FA Cup game. Manager Rebecca Spademan on 07875201587 or email at I must admit that when the [email protected] draw was made the communities of Forest Town and Mansfield Our media manger Oliver Mooney Woodhouse,were looking forward to will be leaving us after today’s this mouthwatering tie. Sherwood game to take up an opportunity at will be bringing along quite a few Chesterfield FC and all at the club players who have either played for wish him every success.In the 2 our first team or under 21s in the years that Olly has been with us he past. has brought us to a new level on the media front,he will be difficult to After months of inactivity due to replace but a big thank you Olly. covid 19 it is great to be playing football again and i would like to That’s enough from me and let the welcome you all back to the Forest game commence with the winners Town Arena. I would just like to awaiting a trip to the seaside to take ask you to be mindful of the 2 on Cleethorpes Town on Saturday metre rule and to observe this 12th September. please, there is plenty of room here at the Arena for us to watch Enjoy The Game football in a safe environment. COME ON YOU BULLS!! Matt has been busy during the lock down and close season and has brought in several new faces to the squad and I wish all of them a very successful time here at AFC

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www.afcmansfield.net | PAGE 5 FDRUOGMOTUHTE Matt Chatfield first team manager Here it is, at last. The start produced some great football of the 2020-21 season and but have been tested, especially what a way to start. An against the evo-stik sides. On FA Cup game against our near Saturday we continued to give rivals Sherwood Colliery. Had the opportunities to our U21 players. season not been curtailed the two The result wasn’t what we sides would most probably be wanted but minutes on the pitch playing in the same league this for some players was essential. season. Sherwood were looking But, tonight I will be putting out odds on to get promoted. the strongest side possible and So I look at this game not as looking to progrees to the next playing a team a level below us round. but a team on an equal status to us. It will be a tough game for both sides with local bragging rights at stake and a trip to Cleethorpes in the next round to look forward to. Pre-season for us has had its ups and downs. We have at times

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www.afcmansfield.net | PAGE 9 MEET THE TEAM Matt John Andy Fahad Jason Lucy CHATFIELD STANCLIFFE MORRIS SALEH TRUSCOTT OWENS Manager Assistant MGR Coach GK COACH Physio Assistant physio Sponsored by Sponsored by Sponsored by Sponsored by Sponsored by Sponsored by GK DF DF DF DF DF Hugo Jordan Matt Josh Ben Liam WARHURST ANNABLE WILSON WILDE ALGAR MARSDEN Sponsored by Sponsored by Sponsored by Sponsored by Sponsored by Sponsored by DF DF MF MF MF MF Jack Tom Jon Phil Owen Connor HARRISON SLONE D’LARYEA BUXTON (C) CLARKE McMILLAN Sponsored by Sponsored by Sponsored by Sponsored by Sponsored by Sponsored by MF FW FW FW FW Morgan Lynton Matt Luke Ross JAMES KARKACH SYKES WALKER DUGGAN Sponsored by Sponsored by Sponsored by Sponsored by Sponsored by

Page 10 | Bullseye Match Day Programme Statistics don’t tell everything - but they do say something. ATTSATCAKT AFC’s Pre-season 2020 in numbers 8 Games played 23 Goals scored 5 Wins 9 Goals conceded 3 Defeats 8-0 Biggest win TOP Ross Duggan - 7 SCORERS Luke Walker - 3 Matt Sykes - 4

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www.afcmansfield.net | PAGE 13 AFC Mansfield 0 Swallownest 1 Pre-season friendly | 29/08/20 Only several minutes later, the Bulls had a pen- Scorers: [Unknown] (34 pen.) alty shout of their own, but the referee wasn’t Attendance: 62 convinced that Walker was felled in the visiting Pre-season ended in defeat as a first-half pen- box despite strong appeals. alty guided Swallownest to a hard-won result in Forest Town. AFC remained largely on top in the second period, as Ross Duggan came off the bench in AFC had the majority of the ball and chances an attempt to add firepower to the Bulls’ front throughout the tie, but it counted for little with three. a clinical South Yorkshire side battling well to earn a clean sheet. Duggan didn’t take long to test the Swallownest goalkeeper, forcing a strong two-handed save Starting ahead of last season’s top scorer Ross with his 20 yard free-kick which seemed to be Duggan, Luke Walker led the Bulls’ front line destined for the far corner. with some excellent hold-up play, but blasted over an early chance when he was fed down The striker then almost set up team-mate Lyn- the left-hand channel. ton Karkach several yards out with a hooked ball from a long-range free-kick, but Duggan New signing Matt Sykes also had a couple of was frustratingly flagged for offside. half-chances, but couldn’t find the target from the edge of the penalty area. Despite all efforts from Matt Chatfield’s men in the game’s dying moments, Swallownest Despite rarely creating a chance, Swallownest reamined resolute at the back, and the visiting were then given the biggest opportunity of the goalkeeper once again came to the rescue to first half when Jordan Annable was penalised tip Duggan’s strike over the bar when Karkach for allegedly bringing down his man inside the did superbly to feed the striker in on goal. penalty area. With pre-season wrapped up, attention turns Swallownest’s number four tucked the spot- to Tuesday night’s huge local derby when AFC kick home emphatically via the top corner, with host Sherwood Colliery in the Emirates FA Cup Hugo Warhurst sent the other way. Extra Preliminary Round at 7:45pm.

Page 14 | Bullseye Match Day Programme Groundhopping Part One The Rules of Engagement �roundhopping, is it merely a single word or a marriage of convenience between two separate entities? Or might it even be hyphenated instead? Truth is, there are so many ways of taking part in this wholesome pastime, that it probably requires at least three different titles anyway, if not more, regardless of the punctuation and spelling there- been for me ever since I can remember... and it’s of. not a formula I’m ever likely to want to change any The only rules and stipulations that apply to time soon, regardless of the fact that some of the ground-hopping (if there actually are any) are elders of the ground hopping fraternity trying to those that any given individual creates for them- tell me that I’m doing it all wrong. selves to adhere personally... and while some of Given the number-crunching and often top-heavy the more curious individual rituals that people par- schedules and obsessive, possibly even addictive take in will be detailed as this serialised overview overindulgence that some established travellers of what is a way of life for many of the participants (another moniker that some like to adopt) under- unfolds; throughout the course of this narrative take, as regards their football attending habit, and overview and insight, I will endeavour not to be the associated taking of copious amounts of notes overly disparaging about anybody else’s habits and throughout the course of each and every new preferences... because when all is said and done: ground they visit (or ‘tick’ in hopper parlance) to we’re all entitled to live in an ‘each to their own’ suit their craving for a fix of the beautiful game, and non-judgemental world. you’d probably quite reasonably expect that the Hopping is a unique hobby (for want of a better mobile and ever-growing hordes of anoraks must word) because just about everyone goes about it be fairly clued up as regards their knowledge and completely differently to one another. There is no understanding of the intricacies of the game. But right or wrong way of doing it, but you’ll probably in a large number of instances, that isn’t the case be accused of being a fraud, if you meander too at all... because for some, it really is all about the far away from the very loose-fitting conventions of thrill of ticking off another new ground to add to this multifaceted activity by quite literally hopping an ever-expanding list of previously uncharted on one leg as you make your way around the foot- territories and though you can bet your life that al- ball venues of this world. though those who’re involved will want to collect I myself have no particular set pattern or template a programme, badge and team sheet at each port that I apply my own travels. Of course, there are of call (get ready to be subjected to a ‘child denied teams that I have an affinity with and will turn out sweets’ type tantrum if you fail to provide any of faithfully to watch in full on partisan supporter this mandatory list of requirements at your club of mode, as is probably the case with most people. choice when they roll up at your door, because hell But as regards all of the ‘other stuff’, I’m more of hath no fury like a ground hopper denied) and will a ‘here, there and chuffin’ everywhere’ type of demand of you (and fastidiously record) every sin- guy, who has a healthy appetite for all levels of the gle detail of each and every game they attend, the game, throughout a whole spectrum of variants, actual action out on the field of play is effectively from grassroots and development team football peripheral to the purpose of a large number of this to full international level... and all ports of call in footballing subculture being present at any given between. venue. Variety is the spice of life and that’s the way it’s Incidentally, when I talk of the ‘ever-growing

www.afcmansfield.net | PAGE 15 hordes’, I don’t mean that they are getting any that the perplexed ‘bacon-faces’ had been sent taller, it was just an observation pertaining to packing by an angry looking, shaven headed, the fact that this tribe of nomadic wanderers extensively tattooed yobbo (I can’t imagine who increases in numbers each and every season. that might have been), who’d sworn at them And while the vast majority of them are more and shown not an ounce of consideration to- often than not, a cheerful and merry old bunch wards their plight... and furthermore, they didn’t of souls, there are some notable exceptions to find Rossington in time for kick-off either. that rule of thumb generalisation. “Left out of the car park, right at the rounda- In days of yore, whence I was still working at bout at the end of the road and it’s about six a smashing little club that ply their trade just miles that way... watch out for the speed cam- about on the borderline of North Notts and eras”, is obviously too much information to ab- South Yorkshire, a car full of hoppers turned up sorb when your head is shot to pieces because at the gate some ten minutes before kick-off you would’ve had to wait for forty-five minutes and were nonplussed to discover that we only to procure a programme, which your sense of had two programmes left for them to share entitlement evidently thought was far more between their group. I explained that one of our prioritous than dealing with an injured player players had picked up an injury during the warm and attending to official club/league paperwork up and that I was in the process of amending commitments. the team-sheet while liaising with the opposi- Incidentally: ‘bacon-faces’ along with ‘Hamp- tion club secretary and match referee, but that shire Hogs’ is a much used pseudonym for once I’d announced the team line-ups over the people from their neck of the woods, I have tannoy (as per league rules), arranged for our no axe to grind with anybody based upon their right-back to get a lift to the hospital (or most geographical origins. likely be commandeered to take him myself) and But I digress. Moving swiftly back onto the penned something resembling a match-report subject matter in hand, or somewhere not of the first-half and taken a few photos while quite so off tangent least-ways, the travellers updating the club’s social media feeds; that phraseology: “Do you issue/”, means: “Do you when I got a few spare moments at half-time, have programmes available because I will damn I would gladly nip to the office and print off a well expect one even if I turn up as the teams few more copies of the programme and even are about to enter the field of play? And you photocopy the official team sheets for them. better bloody well print too many each and have But that wasn’t good enough! “We’ve come all a surplus every effing week, just in case the way from Hampshire and your club is meant to be issuing programmes!” We did! And after Continued on next page .... years of estimating how many we’d usually need for different games, we usually got the numbers about right. But on this occasion, I was presented with an angry ultimatum: “If you’re not issuing now for all of us, we’re not coming in!” As a club representative, with a community spirited reputation to consider, I merely smiled and bid them farewell (or words to that effect) as they marched towards their car, pausing only to shout: “What way is it to Rossington from here? They’ll have programmes!” Indeed they would, very good awarding winning ones too as it happens. But I really hope that they had sold out of their full allocation too. I read all about the incident on an internet forum later that night, where it was claimed

Page 16 | Bullseye Match Day Programme somebody like me, or my ilk, honour your club fident enough to claim, that ground-hopping is, with a once in a lifetime visit and expect to be generally speaking, a walk of life that is trodden treated like royalty”. For the record, if Prince by the more mature connoisseurs of the beautiful Charles had rolled up shortly before 3PM the fol- game, the older element of society and the more lowing Saturday, he wouldn’t have got a bloody senior members of the football community... programme either. though there will always be exceptions to any I personally prefer to get a programme if there is rule. one available and if the team line-ups are available There is no particular dress code that hoppers ad- too, then all the better, but I’m not ever going here too... but having said that, you’ll still be able to ‘kick-off’ and burn rubber as my car screeches to spot one a mile away because of what they’re away from a ground, just because neither might wearing; as well as their general demeanour and be an option. ability to close out the rest of the world, as they As one of the ‘hogs’ had visited the ground unselfconsciously go about minding their own previously, when it had been used as a neutral business and not taking a blind bit of notice as to venue for a youth cup final; though for three of how you’re going about yours. them it would’ve represented a ‘new tick’, for the Try it for yourself sometime, it’s therapeutic and more extensively travelled member of their party, not a bad place to spend the rest of your days... it would only have represented a ‘revisit’, even while the rest of the world concerns itself with though his attendance at the schoolboys game irrelevant stuff that only exists outside your own would have been classed as a ‘bracketed tick’ (i.e. private bubble. Surely it is obvious to everybody, a game at any facility in which the host side aren’t that remaining neutral, following your own path actually playing)... at least I believe that is what and not nailing any kind of alien flag to your the latter example of ‘ground-hopper newspeak’ mast, thus keeping out of other peoples biased means, though please feel free to pour scorn on arguments, petty agendas, fights and depressing me and aim plenty of angry and pedantic correc- squabbles, cleanses your mind and is ultimately tive invective my way, if it makes you feel better... good for your soul. but I can’t actually promise that I’ll give a damn if Buddhists with their yoga and transcendental you do. meditation, pot-smokers (prior to the paranoia I have this theory about what motivates the cult kicking in) and those who allude to the mantras of ground-hopping; and that is that the requisite of Hare Krishna consciousness, might believe mentality required to follow such a vocation, is that they’ve found the highest plateau of nirvana born out of man’s inherent desire to collect things and outer body calm available to mankind, but and a lust to master the art of list-making. Be it trust me on this one... they’re not even close to train numbers, vinyl records, stamps, militaria, or discovering the fulfilment and peace of mind, that sightings of rare birds, the partaking in copious is enjoyed by those who have willingly sold their amounts of different ales, attempting to watch soul to the cult of groundhopping. Well, apart every bit of single bit smut on porn hub (I heartily from the miserable bar-stewards who’ll have a recommend the midget porn myself)... or just dummy spitting hissy fit of cyber-proportions, if about anything, we’ve all got something than we they miss out on getting a programme, or your obsess about, haven’t we? officially announced attendance isn’t identical to Of course, when we talk of ‘man’s inherent their estimated headcount. desires’ it would be wrong not to include women To be continued. too, because there are a good number of female hoppers too, but in the main, the male of the Rob Waite @THE66POW species dominates the demographic breakdown of those who choose to ‘hop ‘til they drop’, for their escapist fix. The younger generation of either either gender (and the non-gender aligned) football travellers, are very thin on the ground and as such I feel con-

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www.afcmansfield.net | PAGE 19 In the hotseat: Jordan ANNABLE Place of birth Funniest moment Mansfield Leo’s salmon dive at stags Age Favourite player 21 None Occupation Favourite pro club Sports coach None (?!) PArtner Favourite food Britt Anything Italian! Previous clubs Other info None BA Honours in sport studies Most memorable moment Promotion to NPL

Page 20 | Bullseye Match Day Programme Harworth Colliery 1 AFC Mansfield 2 Pre-season friendly | 25/08/20 Scorers: Sykes (75’), Buxton (76’) Attendance: ??? A youthful AFC side earned their fifth pre-season win after go- ing behind at Harworth Colliery. Having been narrowly beaten by Harworth too deserved credit a tough Pontefract Collieries side for a bright opening 20 minutes. the last time out, the men in red responded well to disappoint- Colliery then took an early lead af- ingly conceding a late winner. ter the break as Leigh Warriner took advantage of loose marking inside After a goalless first half, the hosts the penalty area and fired past opened the scoring but Matt Chat- standing-in ‘keeper Fahad Saleh. field’s Bulls were able to come from behind and hold onto a pleasing win. Mansfield had most of the game’s With 75 minutes gone, Matt Sykes chances, as Harworth stopper Ste- levelled with a low drive, before ven Wibberly did well to keep the skipper Phil Buxton bundled home Bulls at bay in the first half, although AFC’s second just a minute later.

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Page 24 | Bullseye Match Day Programme THE OPPOSITION: Sherwood Colliery FC reformed in 2008 with a view to giving Mansfield Woodhouse a Saturday Adult team that the town had lacked for many years. With predominantly young players, the club entered the Midland Amateur Alliance (MAA) in 2008-09. The following season saw the introduction of a reserve team, both teams playing in the MAA. In 2010-11, the First Team won the MAA 1st Division Championship while the reserves gained promotion from Division 2. In 2012-13, an application to join the Central Midlands League was successful. The club entered a First team in the North Division and a Reserve team in the Reserve Premier League and with a young squad of players managed the adjustment to the higher level of football reasonably well. A third (A) team added in 2013-14 with an even younger squad of players who played in the MAA to gain experience of adult football. 2013-14 saw the first team achieve a creditable 10th place in the North division while the Reserves completed a Reserve Premier and Reserve League Cup double. The ‘A’ team finished in 4th place in the MAA Division 2. Despite this success, the club suffered a hammer blow in the close season prior to the 2014-15 season with the management teams leaving the club

www.afcmansfield.net | PAGE 25 SHERWOOD COLLIERY only 2 weeks before the start of the season. The club managed to somehow put managers and players in place and fulfil the fixtures. The 2015-16 season saw an influx of new committee members and new First and Reserve team managers appointed in early June. Wayne Savage joined from Bilsthorpe FC and remains in the post. Wayne has overseen four seasons (five if we include the expunged 19-20 season) and secured promotion via the CML South runners-up position in 2017-18. Mick Kerry and Lee Tryner provide the assistance. The club are hoping to build on an excellent ¾ season last time out that saw them top the league when Covid-19 intervened in the EMCFL last season. The reserve team manager is Jonny Ward and compete in the CML South Division. Sherwood Colliery FACTFILE: Year FOUNDED: Reformed 2008 League titles: 1 Nickname: The wood Highest level: Step 6 Chairman: gareth bull Best FA Cup run: 1st season Manager: wayne savage Best FA Vase run: 2nd round

Page 26 | Bullseye Match Day Programme ABOUT THE BULLS AFC Mansfield were formed in 2012 by three former Mansfield Town directors - Andrew Saunders, Darren Bland and Steve Hymas - as a community club for the Mansfield area. Starting in the Central Midlands Football League, ‘the Bulls’ have since earned three promotions, including one league title, and have played as high as Step 4 in the Northern Premier League in 2018/19. Memorable moments for the Bulls include winning the NCEL Division One title in 2016, reaching the NCEL League Cup SAanudnrdewers BDlaarnrden MAbikbes final in 2018, and an FA Chairman Director Director Cup Second Qualifying Round appearance against Boston United. AFC now play in the CBoalrermyan TSoabuynders Toolstation NCEL Premier Division under manager Vice-President Committee volunteer Matt Chatfield, who arrived in the summer of 2019.

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T O D A Y ’ S T E A M SPage28|BullseyeMatchDayProgramme AFC Mansfield Sherwood colliery (manager) Matt Chatfield WAYNE SAVAGE (Manager) (coach) John Stancliffe LEE TRYNER (asst. manager) (coach) Andy Morris mick kerry (asst. manager) (GK coach) Fahad Saleh josh parker (coach) (Physio) Jason Truscott simon mills (physio) (Assistant physio) Lucy Owens josh turton (gk) carter widdowson (GK) Hugo Warhurst ricky starbuck Liam Marsden jobe shaw (c) Josh Wilde charlie taylor Ben Algar ewan robson Tom Slone jamie yorke Matt Wilson nathan clarke gareth curtis Jordan Annable kieran wells Jack Harrison liam hearn (C) Phil Buxton eden homer Jon D’Laryea tim gregory Morgan James ross henshaw Owen Clarke ethan weisztort lewis belgrave Connor McMillan liam theakstone Luke Walker luke bacon Lynton Karkach Matt Sykes Ross Duggan jamie mcguire Referee: martin beard | Assistant referee: adie seward | Assistant referee: daniel seward