The Nottingham Evening Post has published more of the comments made by Graham Turner to the press at the weekend.
Turner is quoted as saying: "The simple fact is we are not working hard enough and we are not competitive enough. We have stepped up a division and so are playing against better quality players. But we are allowing them too much space and too much time.
"There were too many basic defensive errors which we must put right and, of course, the first goal was an absolute joke."
Meanwhile, Mansfield boss Peter Shirtliff was pleased with the result: "I said to the players at half-time they are going to come out and have a go because their manager is going to get into them.
"I made our players aware what they needed to do to combat that and they did very well. We kept them in the final third of the pitch for quite a while and got the third goal which was so important.
On tomorrow's game against Wycombe, the websites of both BBC Sport and Sporting Life are reporting that Turner is contemplating a reshuffle after Saturday's debacle.