A youthful Mansfield reserve side crashed 4-0 to more experienced visitors
Hull City in an Avon Insurance League Division Two game yesterday.
With only four players with first-team experience and a large number of
youth team players in their ranks, The Stags were up against it from the off
with both Gary Bradshaw and Rodney Rowe blazing first-time efforts over the
Mansfield bar in the opening eight minutes from excellent positions.
But Rowe broke through on 12 minutes when he reached a flick-on at the back
post to drill under keeper Michael Bingham.
Mark Robinson cleared an Andy Holt header off the line on 22 minutes but
Holt did net with a free header from a Rob Matthews corner two minutes
later.
Bingham did well to deny Matthews when he ran through one-on-one just before
the break.
Greg Lincoln sent a 25-yard curler into the top corner to make it 3-0 on 47
minutes and David Lee added a fourth from the spot on 67 after the referee
harshly adjudged Alistair Asher had brought down Lincoln.
The Stags' best chances for a consolation came in the last 25 minutes as
Paul Musselwhite's legs kept out Martin Pemberton while Lee Philpott headed
an Asher effort onto the bar.
Danny Bacon's dead leg had not recovered enough in time to play for
Mansfield while on-trial Steve Hutchinson was not considered after playing
for non-League Teversal the night before.

Bingham, Asher, Jervis, Lazarus, Holyoak, Barrett, Carter, Pemberton (Buxton), Mitchell, Clarke, Robinson.   Subs not used: White, Ghaichem, Andrews, Draper