New signing - Oli Hawkins

[STAGS FOR LIFE]

Welcome to MTFC Oli

[MTFCMusings]

Has also played a lot of football as a centre half. Surprised we have managed to persuade him this far North. An excellent alternative option to our attack.

[bobbystagsfan]

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welcome to Mansfield oli!

[yellowstagsfan]

That's a lot of striker. Hope he's more mobile than Cook

[MTFCMusings]

Looks a poacher as well as a target man.

[natfromboza]

Good to have a target man option. We had no plan B after Cooke left.

[Torrystag]

Welcome to the stags oli

[BH_Stag]

Interesting option. Expected us to go for a striker with pace but we’ve gone down another route.

Looks a useful lad and definitely offers us something that we don’t have. You must be doing something right to play that many games for Portsmouth in the past couple of years.

Still think we could do with a bit of raw pace as an option in forward areas, but i think in Reid would probably have to make way to accommodate that and I don’t expect that to happen.

[Martin Shaw]

interesting interview with him from a year ago where he describes himself as a marmite figure: https://www.eadt.co.uk/sport/oli-hawkin ... le-2690450

[arsene wengers coat]

Good to have a target man option. We had no plan B after Cooke left.

He doesn't look like a plan B. He looks like a focal point for our attack. That clip looks good, aggressive and get on the end of crosses. Clearly he brings the best out of those around him.

Good addition.

[Billy the fish]

Not overwhelmed by his stats but welcome to the Mill , as mentioned he will give us a different option.

[Martin Shaw]

Looks a poacher as well as a target man.

an extraordinary proportion of goals from inside the six-yard box. A poacher, as you say.

[MTFCMusings]

Full interview on iFollow. Says he scored his first league goal at Field Mill for Daggers.

[Martin Shaw]

interview with Oli available first and in full for iFollow subscribers

[Billy the fish]

Good to have a target man option. We had no plan B after Cooke left.

He doesn't look like a plan B. That clip looks good, aggressive and get on the end of crosses.

Good addition.

You should look at the clip of Jamie Reid before he signed for us you

[Martin Shaw]

Full interview on iFollow. Says he scored his first league goal at Field Mill for Daggers.

see https://stagsnet.net/match/reports/view ... atchid=783

[lifestags]

Very pleased with the calibre of this signing, he is a proper target man,

As mentioned I am surprised that he has gone for a target man, I assume he would go for pace but there is still time

[Tippy Tappy Football]

Oli Hawkins was a really good striker for the Daggers in League 2. 19 goals in 43(20) league appearances. He scored his first goal for them against the Stags in Feb 2016. It was a tap in He was then signed by Portsmouth for a transfer fee. The Salary Guess website has him down for £1,800 per week at Ipswich so well within our price range.

He scored 14 goals for Portsmouth in 57(20) league apps and 1 goal for Ipswich in 8(12) league apps.

Matty Blair had a great game.

[BH_Stag]

Looks a poacher as well as a target man.

an extraordinary proportion of goals from inside the six-yard box. A poacher, as you say.

Will be so important for us to get real quality crosses in to the box next season. The success of Johnson and Hawkins will depend on it as neither are really the type to beat a couple of men and do it themselves.

[Tippy Tappy Football]

Nigel Clough will play him as a centre forward and as a centre half.

[Dan]

He looks like Elliott Hewitt.

[bobbystagsfan]

Nigel Clough will play him as a centre forward and as a centre half.

Pompey fans on twitter saying he's good at both ends of the pitch

[Brough]

Very pleased with the calibre of this signing, he is a proper target man,

As mentioned I am surprised that he has gone for a target man, I assume he would go for pace but there is still time

Offload Reid! Then we could possibly bring in another?

[tmwilson]

Good signing that.

[MTFCMusings]

Oli Hawkins was a really good striker for the Daggers in League 2. 19 goals in 43(20) league appearances. He scored his first goal for them against the Stags in Feb 2016. It was a tap in He was then signed by Portsmouth for a transfer fee. The Salary Guess website has him down for £1,800 per week at Ipswich so well within our price range.

He scored 14 goals for Portsmouth in 57(20) league apps and 1 goal for Ipswich in 8(12) league apps.

Matty Blair had a great game.

He only scored one EFL goal for The Daggers Darren. The rest were in the National League.