{"id":558546,"date":"2020-07-17T17:04:39","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T21:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/?p=558546"},"modified":"2020-07-17T17:04:39","modified_gmt":"2020-07-17T21:04:39","slug":"farrend-rawson-defender-joins-mansfield-town-on-two-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2020\/07\/17\/farrend-rawson-defender-joins-mansfield-town-on-two-year-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Farrend Rawson: Defender Joins Mansfield Town on Two-Year Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mansfield Town have confirmed the signing of defender <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/f2875393\/Farrend-Rawson\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Farrend Rawson<\/a> on a two-year deal.<\/p>\n<h2>Mansfield Town Sign Farrend Rawson<\/h2>\n<h3>Fifth Signing of the Summer<\/h3>\n<p>Rawson, who joins from fellow League Two club Forest Green Rovers, is the Stags&#8217; fifth signing of the summer.<\/p>\n<p>Having spent the past three season with Forest Green, he makes the move closer to home, having began his career with Derby County.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old has been pivotal in Mark Cooper&#8217;s side across the last two seasons. He made 38 appearances in the 2018\/19 season, as Forest Green reached the League Two play-off semi-finals. Rawson also made 30 appearances before the curtailment of the 2019\/20 season.<\/p>\n<p>The former Derby County defender arrives at Field Mill alongside former Luton Town goalkeeper <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/e3a9968d\/Marek-Stech\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Marek Stech<\/a>, who has not featured for the Hatters since the 2018\/19 season.<\/p>\n<p>Also joining him are<a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/172e9148\/Ollie-Clarke\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Ollie Clarke<\/a>, who signed from Bristol Rovers, and strikers <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/2020\/06\/29\/mansfield-town-add-experienced-goalkeeper-marek-stech-to-their-ranks\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jordan Bowery and Jamie Reid<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>What Was Said<\/h3>\n<p>Speaking to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mansfieldtown.net\/news\/2020\/july\/stags-land-commanding-centre-half\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">official Mansfield Town website<\/a>, manager Graham Coughlan said: &#8220;This is another terrific addition to our squad.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor someone so young, Faz has amassed a lot of experience and game time and with the right coaching he can definitely push himself to the next level.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is honest, hard-working and a real commanding figure in both boxes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFaz and his wife have shown real commitment to this move, given they have recently had a new born baby.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are delighted to have him on board and can\u2019t wait to get started.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Promotion the Aim?<\/h3>\n<p>Promotion is likely to be the aim for the Stags in the forthcoming season, after a disappointing 2019\/20 campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Mansfield finished in 21st place, winning just nine of their 36 games before the seasons curtailment. It was a disappointing campaign, following their play-off finish the season before.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, they will be hoping to be at the right end of the table at the end of the 2020\/21 season.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<br \/>\n<a id=\"fSQYvNQkRkpZ3kN8ja_f-Q\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/1142593020\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'fSQYvNQkRkpZ3kN8ja_f-Q',sig:'IrNRzXELMNPCe8PKpOXHiU2QoTus9QDcHvmWjvOD9zQ=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1142593020',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mansfield Town have confirmed the signing of defender Farrend Rawson on a two-year deal. Mansfield Town Sign Farrend Rawson Fifth Signing of the Summer Rawson, who joins from fellow League Two club Forest Green Rovers, is the Stags&#8217; fifth signing of the summer. Having spent the past three season with Forest Green, he makes the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2795,"featured_media":558550,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32,34,30],"tags":[168,827,6093,1356,2625,136],"class_list":["post-558546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-league-football","category-league12","category-news","tag-efl","tag-efl-league-two","tag-farrend-rawson","tag-forest-green-rovers","tag-mansfield-town","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Ben Robinson, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2795"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=558546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/558550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}