Au revoir

[Davy500]

A lot of people assuming Mansfield will come straight back down. I couldn't disagree more. Clough is an outstanding manager. He has a proven record of defying the odds. He steadied the ship at Derby, when many predicted they would go down due to financial problems. He also took Burton up to the Championship, and managed to keep them up for 2 seasons. A person capable of keeping them in the Championship for that long, is more than capable of keeping Mansfield in L1. John Radford will give him a very respectable budget i'm sure of that.

TBh i think Mansfiled will be mid to lower table, but i think they probably gone as far as they are going too
I read a report recently that said most teams eventually return to L2 that are in L1, unless they get to the championship. I think it said only 7 teams have survived in L1 longer than 5 or 6 years , with the majority returning to L2
So the likely hood is Mansfield will remain in L1 for several years mid to lower table before dropping back
But they builded a squad over 11 years, so cant fault them they eventually got promotion, fair play
The qustion is can we do better?? Get to L1 in less tahn 11 years

[kill_the_drum]

Congratulations Stags.
Promotion well deserved.
Hopefully it’s not 11 years in the making for us!

[marky]

I'm pretty confident they'll be straight back down, next season's Carlisle United. Just hope we're not next season's Grimsby.

[hissingdwarf]

Congrats. Stays deserve to go up. They’ve steadily built up and got stronger until they’ve got their just rewards.
How long will it last? Time will tell, but well deserved this season.

Same goes for Stockport and Wrexham. Stockport look a cut above the rest imo.

[jimmysirrelsmassivetooth]

Stockport look a cut above the rest imo.

But did lose twice to Mansfield.

[Chicken Balti Pie]

Stags will be fodder next season. Some big teams coming down next season to league one and quite a few bigger teams who will pounce next year, in for a rough ride

[nw6pie]

Well done to the Stags, they deserve it. They really should have gone up before this season, but it looks like Flint had been the game-changer for them this time around. They’ve also had time to keep building the squad at this level and probably now have 20 players who can do a job for them. We’ve probably got five.

[kill_the_drum]

A lot of people assuming Mansfield will come straight back down. I couldn't disagree more. Clough is an outstanding manager. He has a proven record of defying the odds. He steadied the ship at Derby, when many predicted they would go down due to financial problems. He also took Burton up to the Championship, and managed to keep them up for 2 seasons. A person capable of keeping them in the Championship for that long, is more than capable of keeping Mansfield in L1. John Radford will give him a very respectable budget i'm sure of that.

I think it’s said more out of hope than judgement.
I think they’ll hold their own next season. They’ve won promotion this season whilst having an horrendous injury list at times. They’ve also scored a huge amount of goals without a decent No.9. If they can add that to the squad, they could do very well.

[Notts78]

Mansfield will be fine next season through a combination of a competitive squad and a decent manager.
To be successful you need both a good squad and a good leader. Mansfield, Stockport and Wrexham have both and in spades.
I feel all three managers at those clubs may have done better with our squad in terms of positioning in the league but a genuinely don’t think we’d have been promotion contenders. The one characteristic all 3 of those managers have in common is they are all hard nosed. There is no way they would have gone through January without insisting on strengthening the defence.
Notts lack of squad depth has been massively exposed and the points tally over the last 20/25 games supports this.

[slack_pie]

Goodbye, until we meet again.

Congrats! I think you'll do fine next season - decent manager, solid squad, and an owner with fairly deep pockets.

Imagine how outraged Stags fans would be if one of us went on their board to gloat after a promotion, yet here we are congratulating this one. I guess we aren't the same.