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Newport County Tuesday night home preview

Postby Sweden Stag » Mon Oct 24, 2022 6:03 pm

For the thirteenth consecutive season in preview history, the Stags now take on Tuesday night’s One Call opponents, the side which followed the Stags into League Two a decade ago, namely Newport County.

And both sides are also the only surviving ones from the 2013-14 League Two line-up inasmuch as Exeter City last season gained a deserved long-overdue promotion into League One.

And during that time, both sides have also been on the losing side in playoff finals, Newport County twice and the Stags once.

While the Stags have recovered from last season’s final defeat, even though the display at Crawley was way below par, Newport County have faltered this season and been closer to the trap-door than the playoffs. As a result of that, Newport are one out of six League Two sides who already have changed their manager. Out went James Rowberry, in came Graham Coughlan, whose Newport bow ended in an important 1-0 home victory against Colchester, another struggling side which recently made a changed in the hot seat.

And this will be Coughlan’s first visit to One Call for almost exactly two years as he was axed hours after a disastrous 2-4 home defeat to Barrow on October 27, 2020. While at the Stags, Coughlan did not pull up any trees at all as he managed just four wins stretched from the curtailed 2019-20 season into nine games of the 2020-21 one. One of those victories was in fact against Newport County on February 15, 2020 thanks to a first-half Danny Rose strike. From that line-up, none is now at the Stags. One player then, Hayden White, played against the Stags for Walsall recently.

The first Newport preview was a game at Newport in the Conf National on September 18, 2010 in a fixture which saw two twin brothers in opposite dugouts for the first time ever, Dean Holdsworth for Newport and David Holdsworth for the Stags.

The current Newport club are also one of the most previewed ones in preview history, most previewed are Cambridge with 28 league previews and two FA Cup ones (in 2014-15).

And when the sides met at Newport on the opening day of the curtailed 2019-20 season, it was also the third time in just four seasons the sides had done so (twice at Newport, last season at Mansfield). And for the fourth time overall as the two sides which went on to be promoted together from the current National League clashed at One Call Stadium on the opening day of the 2012-13 season.

Not for nearly 60 years, the Stags had played any League sides for ten consecutive seasons. Last time this happened, it was against Wrexham between the 1947-48 and 1961-62 seasons, eleven of those in the old Division 3 (N), then two in the old third as founder members, then two in the old fourth after being relegated together in 1959-60.

Since pulling off a great relegation escape in 2016-17, Newport fared much better for a few seasons, eventually ending up in 11th position in 2017-18, followed by being 7th in 2018-19. In the 2020-21 season, the Exiles finished 5th but for the second time in three seasons, they lost the final by the only goal of the game. While Tranmere progressed in 2018-19, Morecambe did the same last season

After two defeats at Newport during the Conf days, the Stags went on to winning runs. The 1-0 defeat in 2012 was followed by thirteen Stags wins, one draw and one defeat before unluckily losing the playoff semifinals against York City, who a few years ago became the first side to be relegated from League Two and Conference National in successive seasons, now back in the Conf National after a late rally and a playoff final victory against Boston United, then managed by Paul Cox, a former Stags boss..

And the 2-0 defeat at Newport in February 2013, incidentaly reffed by the same official who was in charge of the playoff semi-final first leg at Newport in 2019 (details checked). was followed by the Stags’ record 12-match winning run on the way to the title and subsequent FL return. Newport followed a few weeks later after two late goals against Wrexham in the playoff final.

While the Stags have averaged nearly three goals per home game against the current Newport club, the goals at Newport have been fewer. Just look at the stats below.

Played for both sides: Walter Akers, Neville Chamberlain, Roddy Collins, Fred Flanders, Dai Jones, Kevin Kent, Terence Melling, John Moore, Tommy Pritchard, Mick Vinter, Alan Waddle.

Current Newport club: Jon Challinor, Adam Chapman, Rob Duffy, Matt Green, Alex Fisher, Anthony Hartigan, Kyle Howkins, Otis Khan, Jefferson Louis, Nicky Maynard, Tom Naylor, Aaron O'Connor, Lenny Pidgeley, Mitchell Rose, Glyn Thompson..

Managed both sides: Graham Coughlan.

League game stats against the old Newport club:

Home:P 9, W 6, D 2, L 1, GF 14, GA 7
Away:P 9, W 3, D 2, L 4, GF 7, GA 7

Home games Away games

1937-38 1-1 1937-12-04 0-1 1938-04-16 Division 3 (S)
1938-39 0-2 1939-11-01 0-0 1939-04-01 Division 3 (S)
1958-59 2-1 1959-01-31 0-1 1958-09-13 Division 3 (old)
1959-60 3-1 1959-11-21 1-0 1960-04-09 Division 3 (old)
1962-63 2-1 1963-04-20 1-1 1962-12-01 Division 4 (old)
1972-73 0-0 1973-03-26 1-0 1972-09-02 Division 4 (old)
1973-74 2-1 1974-02-24 0-2 1973-10-09 Division 4 (old)
1974-75 3-0 1974-12-28 1-2 1975-03-31 Division 4 (old)
1986-87 1-0 1986-11-25 3-0 1987-03-17 Division 3 (old)

Current Newport club:

Home:P 12, W 9, D 2, L 1, GF 30, GA 11
Away:P 12, W 2, D 4, L 6, GF 10, GA 15

2010-11 3-3 2011-02-12 0-1 2010-09-18 BSP
2011-12 5-0 2011-09-10 0-1 2012-02-18 BSP
2012-13 3-4 2012-08-11 0-2 2013-02-12 BSP
2013-14 2-1 2014-03-08 1-1 2013-09-07 League Two
2014-15 1-0 2014-08-19 1-0 2015-03-03 League Two
2015-16 3-0 2015-10-03 0-1 2016-03-05 League Two
2016-17 2-1 2017-02-25 3-2 2016-08-06 League Two
2017-18 5-0 2018-02-13 1-1 2017-10-21 League Two
2018-19 3-0 2018-08-04 0-1 2019-02-09 League Two
2019-20 1-0 2020-02-15 2-2 2019-08-03 League Two
2020-21 1-1 2021-04-09 1-2 2020-10-03 League Two
2021-22 2-1 2021-08-14 1-1 2022-02-19 League Two

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