Jakub Stolarczyk

[Dan]

Yet another player who seems to get worse the longer it goes on. It's time, and time, and time again.

 

What is going on?

[It'sblueupnorth]

11 hours ago, LCFCJohn said:

Literally not what I am saying 

 

Right this is boring. If it makes you happy, fine, Stolarcryk is non-league standard and any keeper in the EFL, including whoever Wednesday have plucked off Hillsborough park to put in nets any given week would do a better job.

 

Happier?

It’s because your point is stupid. Iversen and Johanson are streets ahead of Stolar, putting either in ahead of Stolar would instantly improve the team. If we played the course of the season with either in net we’d have kept more than 4 clean sheets, and would be 10/15+ pts better off 

[LCFCJohn]

3 hours ago, It'sblueupnorth said:

It’s because your point is stupid. Iversen and Johanson are streets ahead of Stolar, putting either in ahead of Stolar would instantly improve the team. If we played the course of the season with either in net we’d have kept more than 4 clean sheets, and would be 10/15+ pts better off 

Well it’s called an opinion but yeah, I’m stupid thanks!

 

They are all average championship goalkeepers at best. And guess what, there’s this amazing thing called players either performing better or worse of they are put in a well drilled, functioning team or one that is a complete toxic shambles like ours. 
 

I am a balanced poster in my views and don’t get sucked in to the hate towards certain players when they get scapegoated. What I will say for balance then is that I believe Stolarcryk’s weaknesses are more mental (confidence, communication) rather than technical ability. Maybe you’d see a slight improvement if one of the others had a bit more confidence and hadn’t let it get to him. And in the case of the QPR game, better communication. 
 

But 15 points, you’re having an absolute laugh. If you’re telling me, you put another average goalie in this side this season and we are suddenly knocking on the door of the playoffs…..well that’s nonsense.
 

The defensive structure of this side has been crap all season. Even back in October time, we had the opposition literally allowed to walk through the defence and take shots at will so there’s going to be difficult for any keeper. Clearly he is mentally fragile and has progressively fallen further off the cliff as the season has gone on. Nobody’s disputing that. 
 

He is another, like Nelson, who just needs to move on for his own sake this summer. Start afresh.

Edited 17 March by LCFCJohn

[Pliskin]

He’s ****ing garbage. Another player we’ve pinned hopes on being half decent, but in reality he’s dreadful. 

[Ian Nacho]

Tried to back him earlier in the season but clearly isn't good enough. Couldn't get into the Fleetwood side a few years back. 

[It'sblueupnorth]

9 hours ago, LCFCJohn said:

Well it’s called an opinion but yeah, I’m stupid thanks!

 

They are all average championship goalkeepers at best. And guess what, there’s this amazing thing called players either performing better or worse of they are put in a well drilled, functioning team or one that is a complete toxic shambles like ours. 
 

I am a balanced poster in my views and don’t get sucked in to the hate towards certain players when they get scapegoated. What I will say for balance then is that I believe Stolarcryk’s weaknesses are more mental (confidence, communication) rather than technical ability. Maybe you’d see a slight improvement if one of the others had a bit more confidence and hadn’t let it get to him. And in the case of the QPR game, better communication. 
 

But 15 points, you’re having an absolute laugh. If you’re telling me, you put another average goalie in this side this season and we are suddenly knocking on the door of the playoffs…..well that’s nonsense.
 

The defensive structure of this side has been crap all season. Even back in October time, we had the opposition literally allowed to walk through the defence and take shots at will so there’s going to be difficult for any keeper. Clearly he is mentally fragile and has progressively fallen further off the cliff as the season has gone on. Nobody’s disputing that. 
 

He is another, like Nelson, who just needs to move on for his own sake this summer. Start afresh.

I didn’t call you stupid I just said that this opinion is stupid. 
Johanson has kept 8 clean sheets in 23 this season, that’s 1 in just over 3 games, that easily equates to 10-15 pts better off. 
Whilst I agree as a team we’ve been a shambles all season, we’d not be a million miles away from the play offs with a decent keeper and a decent striker. 
We’ll see what sort of career stolarczyk goes on to have but I think you calling him an average championship keeper is way off the mark, and to be putting him in the same bracket as Iversen and Johanson is naive

Edited 17 March by It'sblueupnorth

[Trav Le Bleu]

2 minutes ago, It'sblueupnorth said:

I didn’t call you stupid I just said that this opinion is stupid. 
Johanson has kept 8 clean sheets in 23 this season, that’s 1 in just over 3 games, that easily equates to 10-15 pts better off. 
Whilst I agree as a team we’ve been a shambles all season, we’d be not a million miles away from the play offs with a decent keeper and a decent striker. 
We’ll see what sort of career stolarczyk goes on to have but I think you calling him an average championship keeper is way off the mark, and to be putting him in the same bracket as Iversen and Johanson is naive

We'd be in the playoffs with a decent defence. That's not on any single player, they've all been poor, but that has also exposed failings. A below average player in a back line of otherwise good defenders will not be so vulnerable as the others will to some extent cover their inadequacies.

 

An average keeper behind our defence is always going to struggle. Behind, for instance Millwall's defence, they wouldn't be conceding so many. More than other parts of the team, the defence is a unit. 5 weak links will be found out.

 

 

[Fox92]

2 minutes ago, Trav Le Bleu said:

We'd be in the playoffs with a decent defence. That's not on any single player, they've all been poor, but that has also exposed failings. A below average player in a back line of otherwise good defenders will not be so vulnerable as the others will to some extent cover their inadequacies.

 

An average keeper behind our defence is always going to struggle. Behind, for instance Millwall's defence, they wouldn't be conceding so many. More than other parts of the team, the defence is a unit. 5 weak links will be found out.

 

 

For me he is below average. He makes mistakes, same mistakes, time and time again. It's not even the first goal on Saturday, it's the third one too, his inability to decide whether to come or not, doesn't install any confidence in the players. Goalkeeper is such a key position and any decent side has at least a decent goalkeeper.

 

But, still, if it's so easy as people have been posting, for average players to play in better teams and perform better/look better, then why do the best teams in the world by the best players? Why did Man City go and buy Donnarumma when they could have stuck anyone in goal?

 

Our whole defensive unit has been a shambles this season but a better goalkeeper would have had more clean sheets (Ipswich H as an example) or we would have more points (Preston A as an example). And of course a goalkeeper has his errors highlighted more but we haven't got a good striker, a player to rely on scoring goals, so our first priority needs to be keeping clean sheets.

[LCFCJohn]

1 hour ago, It'sblueupnorth said:

I didn’t call you stupid I just said that this opinion is stupid. 
Johanson has kept 8 clean sheets in 23 this season, that’s 1 in just over 3 games, that easily equates to 10-15 pts better off. 
Whilst I agree as a team we’ve been a shambles all season, we’d not be a million miles away from the play offs with a decent keeper and a decent striker. 
We’ll see what sort of career stolarczyk goes on to have but I think you calling him an average championship keeper is way off the mark, and to be putting him in the same bracket as Iversen and Johanson is naive

I disagree. This is much more than a poor/poorly performing goalkeeper. The side is riddled with issues. 
 

Look, I only commented as I was one of those defending Iverson at the time most were giving it the old Anstey Nomads jibes at him and saying he was shit. At the time I said he is a good Championship keeper if played consistently in a side that played to his strengths and guess what, I was right. Johansson, we didn’t see here to be fair. So when people start saying how much better off we’d be with Iverson after how he was written off I found it amusing.

 

To be clear, I do believe that technically, there is not much between them. Technically. Stolarcryk performed quite well before, even last season given the circumstances. It looks like classic mental fragility more so than complete lack of physical/technical ability. Not to say he is great in the latter areas but the weaknesses that are causing his performances for me are mental fragility. Maybe then we’d have a few more points with one of those former goalies if they communicate better (communication seemed to be the issues with the goals against QPR) and if they could retain some self confidence in adverse conditions which quite clearly Stolarcryk has not done as he has fallen apart. 
 

However, I strongly disagree we’d be 10/15 points better off as my whole point was around how this club currently just brings out the worse in nearly all players (exceptions like James aside). The issues are not one player. And that was why I made the point that even if they were better goalkeepers, it does not automatically mean you pop them in this side, behind this defence and suddenly win loads more points. The whole reason we are getting turned over week after week by teams who we would consider weaker on paper is because they perform to more than the sum of their parts whereas we are a bunch of individual mercenaries. So I think it would take a lot more than putting another goalkeeper or even a striker into the side and suddenly not being in this mess. But James seems to have managed to perform well so hey, maybe you could if it was the right player.

 

By the same token you could put Stolarcryk into one of those other sides and he’d look better than he does here so yes it’ll be interesting to see how he gets on. But I do think we’ll see a lot of players leave and go on to do well elsewhere as this club is toxic. 

[SafewayFox]

The reality is, since Kasper has left - we’ve had 1 good keeper (Mads).

 

The rest have been below average.

 

Jakub has too many flaws in his game IMO.

[UniFox21]

They really must not rate him.

 

 

[Leicester_Loyal]

He's hardly pulled up any trees this season has he? Not surprised.

[DJ Barry Hammond]

45 minutes ago, UniFox21 said:

They really must not rate him.

 

 

I think more likely, he’s a potential sale.

 

I also think the criticism he gets is a bit harsh - it needs to be remembered he is an academy graduate playing as first choice for the first time where we haven’t had a settled back four and been generally poor all across the pitch.

 

You know - play the youth - well he is one of them and we should perhaps be a little more forgiving and supportive as a fan base?

[Claridge]

20 hours ago, DJ Barry Hammond said:

I think more likely, he’s a potential sale.

 

I also think the criticism he gets is a bit harsh - it needs to be remembered he is an academy graduate playing as first choice for the first time where we haven’t had a settled back four and been generally poor all across the pitch.

 

You know - play the youth - well he is one of them and we should perhaps be a little more forgiving and supportive as a fan base?

All for giving youth a chance, but he is a terrible keeper who is never going to make it and must be replaced

[tylesta]

On 27/03/2026 at 18:00, DJ Barry Hammond said:

I think more likely, he’s a potential sale.

 

I also think the criticism he gets is a bit harsh - it needs to be remembered he is an academy graduate playing as first choice for the first time where we haven’t had a settled back four and been generally poor all across the pitch.

 

You know - play the youth - well he is one of them and we should perhaps be a little more forgiving and supportive as a fan base?

He will cost us points with a settled back 4 he is worful

[markko]

I can't wait to see the quality of all these players we are going to sign with all the money we have!

[CrazyKopCorner]

He's hugely flawed 

 

The goalkeeping coaching has been a shambles for years. 

 

If we hadn't had Kasper we'd have been seriously ****ed 

[Pita]

3 hours ago, markko said:

I can't wait to see the quality of all these players we are going to sign with all the money we have!

It’s going to be a very interesting summer. No players and no money 

[john ridley]

He's just like the whole  squad, very average, the odd good game but nothing  special. Next season  we're  gonna be full of these types of player ,which will just lead to a nothing  season paying  premier league money to watch it .Thing is I can't ever see the prices  going down .

 

[Holly B]

20 years and not one decent keeper has come through the Academy system. The best one in recent times is Teddy Sharman Lowe who the goalkeeping experts at the time  ( one now unbelievably with the first team ) decided wasn’t good enough so we released him. He is at Chelsea and played for pretty much every England youth age group.

 

[moore_94]

41 minutes ago, Holly B said:

20 years and not one decent keeper has come through the Academy system. The best one in recent times is Teddy Sharman Lowe who the goalkeeping experts at the time  ( one now unbelievably with the first team ) decided wasn’t good enough so we released him. He is at Chelsea and played for pretty much every England youth age group.

Didn't play that well at Bolton before he was recalled and is only around the Chelsea first team as an emergency

 

Will be back on loan in league one next season

[Staff]

13 hours ago, moore_94 said:

Didn't play that well at Bolton before he was recalled and is only around the Chelsea first team as an emergency

 

Will be back on loan in league one next season

Welcome home Teddy 

[Holly B]

13 hours ago, moore_94 said:

Didn't play that well at Bolton before he was recalled and is only around the Chelsea first team as an emergency

 

Will be back on loan in league one next season

Exactly 

And he is the best one

The Academy is very good in certain aspects but totally piss poor in others which includes goalkeeper coaching 

[Nods]

Add that second goal to his growing list of lapses in concentration. 

 

What's he doing skipping out to his near post like that on a looping ball? There's only one way they score there and it's a looper back the way it came. 

 

Shocking defending to have two men free at the back stick like that, but to be honest I'm beginning to lose my patience with Jakub to the point I'd be of a mind to blame his organisation for that as well.

[Collymore]

Worst players on the pitch today both goal keepers and both Leicester coached! 

 

We should just keep churning out keepers to whatever division we're in and play Vietes!