, Mansfield Town poach manager from Bristol Rovers

Mansfield Town poach manager from Bristol Rovers

Mansfield Town have announced the appointment of Graham Coughlan as manager.

The 45-year-old will take his first training session tomorrow, as announced by the Stags’ official club website.

Coughlan has left his job as manager of League One side Bristol Rovers in fourth position to take charge of Mansfield in the fourth tier.

He spent his playing career as a centre-back with spells at the likes of Blackburn Rovers, Plymouth Argyle, Sheffield Wednesday, Rotherham United, Shrewsbury Town and Southend United before retiring in 2013.

Coughlan then went into coaching and initially started out at Southend. He moved to Bristol Rovers as defensive coach in 2018 and was installed as caretaker manager that December after the departure of Darrell Clarke.

He was given the full-time job in January and has done a steady job ever since, with his side comfortably surviving last term and then getting themselves into the promotion picture this season.

After joining Mansfield today, he has told their website: “This is a massive opportunity and a massive chance for me. The main attraction was the ambition of the chairman [John Radford]. How he spoke, the ambition he was displaying, the facilities at the club, it was a tremendous and huge opportunity to take on a football club and try to get them promoted.”

“I’ve gone across to the training ground [The RH Academy] and I think the facilities are better than a lot of Championship clubs’ facilities – they are very impressive.”

He added: “The opportunity to manage a club like Mansfield Town, with the ambition at this football club, the facilities, and of course to be able to be at home with my wife and kids, was an absolute mammoth attraction.”

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