Reet, currently gaining fitness on a loan spell with Alfreton Town, was on loan at Rochdale last year.

"The majority of the team were there when I was there," he said. "And if they are going to concede a couple, they will try to score three at home.

"Away from home they are a different team. But at home they like to attack and all go forward at you.

"It will be very tough, but we have enough in our dressing room to get a result there.

"It is a nice family club where everyone is in it together, very like Mansfield really.

"They don't have masses of money to spend but what they have got they like to treat the players well and get behind them."

Reet won't be involved on Saturday but hopes he can come back from Alfreton and fight his way back into the first team at Field Mill.

"I have gone to Alfreton to get myself fit," he said. "I have mostly been playing left wing which gets me up and down a lot more rather than just running across the line so that is helping get me fitter.

"It is also helping the defensive side of my game.

"I am fit now. The difference is being match fit and if I can prove to the gaffer I am fit enough to play a couple of full games in a week at this level he knows I can last 90 minutes at League level."

Ironically, while at Alfreton, he came up against Stags team mate Rory Boulding on loan at Hucknall.

Reet scored in that game while Boulding was sent off. But that red card saw Boulding back at Field Mill prematurely where he suddenly found himself in the first team and scoring against Lewes in the FA Cup.

"That's football and I am pleased for him," said Reet. "But I was the one that scored in that game and he got a red card.

"Yet he was the one that got the chance and scored and you can't help thinking that could have been me.

"Maybe something else will happen and I will get my chance too."