Blank weekend before season starts for Mansfield Town?

A mooted game at Lincoln City never came to fruition for Saturday, 1st August, and with 13 friendly games planned, the Stags boss feels he has more than enough.

“We may not play a game the weekend before the season starts,” he said.

To read a preview of tomorrow’s game at Tamworth click HERE“Everyone looks at pre-season and it’s one of these habits of football that everyone will say we’ve got to play the weekend before the season and we’ve got to put the team out we are going to start the season with.

“It’s a load of cobblers and I’d rather we had a full week’s training from Monday to Friday and go into the first game fresh.

“We put together an intense schedule and it might be the case that halfway through pre-season we may give the boys a two-day break away from everything to regenerate and refresh everything.”

Stags head for Conference North side Tamworth tomorrow (3pm) before games at Retford on Monday (7.30pm) and Worksop on Wednesday (7.45pm).