Central League (Reserves)
at Kirklington Road, Rainworth Miners Welfare FC
Mansfield Town (4) 5
Jacob Mellis 20, 40
Lee Angol 21, 24
Paul Digby 82
Grimsby Town (0) 0
Admission £3 inc team sheet
Attendance 104
The score would've been far more top heavy in the the home side's favour, if they hadn't taken their foot off the gas in the second half.
Mansfield needed to give some game time to some of their first team squad and Grimsby's development will have benefited no end from coming up against a team of full time pros, pretty much the same way that the Stags youngsters will have done when they were beaten at Port Vale last week.
Beating other youth teams week in week out, is all well and good, but it doesn't harm anybody in the youth ranks to come up against a tough as teak men's football team every so often, to demonstrate to them (the upcoming players) just how high they are going to have to raise the bar to make the grade.
