{"id":570632,"date":"2020-10-27T19:49:55","date_gmt":"2020-10-27T23:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=570632"},"modified":"2020-10-27T19:49:55","modified_gmt":"2020-10-27T23:49:55","slug":"mansfield-town-part-company-with-graham-coughlan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2020\/10\/27\/mansfield-town-part-company-with-graham-coughlan\/","title":{"rendered":"Mansfield Town Part Company With Graham Coughlan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?s=Mansfield+Town\" target=\"_self\">Mansfield Town<\/a> have parted company with manager Graham Coughlan.<\/p>\n<p>The decision immediately follows Mansfield&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mansfieldtown.net\/matches\/fixtures\/first-team\/202021\/october\/mansfield-town-vs-barrow-on-27-oct-20\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">4-2 loss<\/a> to Barrow at Field Mill on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<h2>Graham Coughlan Leaves Mansfield Town<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Mansfield?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Mansfield<\/a> Town Football Club can confirm that it has parted company with manager Graham Coughlan.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mansfield Town FC (@mansfieldtownfc) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mansfieldtownfc\/status\/1321214904234377227?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">October 27, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/h3>\n<h3>Bad Form<\/h3>\n<p>Mansfield Town find themselves without a league win all season. In their nine games, they have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/league-two\/table\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">drawn five and lost four<\/a> and sit third from bottom. They have a goal difference of minus-six, in which only <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?s=Morecambe\" target=\"_self\">Morecambe<\/a> (in 12th) have a worse goal difference of the teams above Mansfield.<\/p>\n<p>Coughlan had taken over in December 2019 and guided them to 21st place when the 2019\/20 season <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?s=League+Two\" target=\"_self\">League Two<\/a> was concluded with an <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2020\/06\/09\/efl-league-one-and-league-two-seasons-ended-early\/\" target=\"_self\">unweighted points-per-game system<\/a> in use.<\/p>\n<p>Mansfield&#8217;s last league win came <a href=\"https:\/\/int.soccerway.com\/matches\/2020\/08\/18\/world\/club-friendlies\/mansfield-town-fc\/nottingham-forest-u23\/3339836\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">before lockdown in March<\/a>, a 2-1 win over <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?s=Northampton+Town\" target=\"_self\">Northampton Town<\/a>. Since the return, Coughlan fortunes have gotten worse than previous and it had been decided there is no way out.<\/p>\n<h3>Search for Replacement Underway<\/h3>\n<p>Chairman John Radford and co-chairwoman Carolyn Radford said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mansfieldtown.net\/news\/2020\/october\/club-statement\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">joint statement<\/a>: &#8220;Unfortunately, despite an overhaul in the playing squad during the close season, and with significant backing, we have not acquired the results needed at this stage of the season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have parted company amicably and thank Graham for his endeavours and wish him every success in the future.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Fresh leadership is now required to turn around our season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The process for a new manager is now underway. We will be guided by our chief executive, David Sharpe, and will take the necessary time to ensure that we appoint the right manager for Mansfield Town Football Club.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Games Keep on Coming for Mansfield<\/h3>\n<p>Mansfield will be looking to get a manager who can lead them up the table as soon as possible. It is not mentioned who will take charge of the next game, should anyone be needed before an appointment is made.<\/p>\n<p>The Stags host <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?s=Walsall\" target=\"_self\">Walsall<\/a> on Saturday, October 31, 2020, before a trip to <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?s=Bolton+Wanderers\" target=\"_self\">Bolton Wanderers<\/a> on Tuesday, November 3, 2020, as the games come thick and fast.<\/p>\n<p>Later, Mansfield will travel to <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?s=Sunderland\" target=\"_self\">Sunderland<\/a>&#8216;s Stadium of Light in the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2020\/10\/26\/fa-cup-round-one-draw-doncaster-rovers-faced-with-trip-to-fc-united-of-manchester\/\" target=\"_self\">FA Cup first round<\/a> on Saturday, November 7, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<br \/>\n<a id=\"xgECQp_7RSxAiAw12EXOhg\" 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\/1269526001\" 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:'xgECQp_7RSxAiAw12EXOhg',sig:'YqypxLb0MWrlm7VT5GQSGvr1XZHVbKjErNiOYs9Hr5A=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1269526001',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 parted company with manager Graham Coughlan. The decision immediately follows Mansfield&#8217;s 4-2 loss to Barrow at Field Mill on Tuesday night. Graham Coughlan Leaves Mansfield Town #Mansfield Town Football Club can confirm that it has parted company with manager Graham Coughlan. \u2014 Mansfield Town FC (@mansfieldtownfc) October 27, 2020 Bad Form Mansfield [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3469,"featured_media":570633,"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":[34,32,30],"tags":[6936,168,4454,6935,520,2625,136],"class_list":["post-570632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-league12","category-league-football","category-news","tag-carolyn-radford","tag-efl","tag-graham-coughlan","tag-john-radford","tag-league-two","tag-mansfield-town","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Jordan Hackett, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570632","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\/3469"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/570633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}