Jakub Stolarczyk

[AjcW]

9 hours ago, FoxesFourLife said:

If Kasper's injury does end his playing career bring him in next season as our goalkeeping coach it's a no brainier.

Kasper will make A LOT of money out of being a pundit.

[JimJams]

2 hours ago, 00rawat said:

Not really at fault for both goals but at the same time,I dont rate him as highly as others do on here,I have no confidence when he is starting in goal, play beg for rest of the  season,in summer need a new gk!!

This is the way though when it's decided a player is shit.  Especially when it's a keeper.  Every goal is blamed on that player.  For me, he's not responsible for either goal, and anyone who has played the position knows that.  The header is well placed and should be defended by a covering defender.  There's nothing wrong with his position, he's in position for an effort to the near post.  If he's covering where the ball ends up in this instance he's leaving a gaping hole for a much easier chance to his left.  If that happens people would bemoan him being beaten at his near post.

Ward was dog shit, but he did get a lot of blame for goals that weren't on him, being beaten in 1on1's or someone blasting it from 6 yards.  People hone in on the ones they've decided aren't up to it and use any situation to double down.  For a keeper, it's literally going to be any goal they concede.

When Nelson came on we twice had situations when they colluded to fxxk up between them, but I'm not sure who that was on.  He's got it in his mind to come out a fair way, and it's fxxked him a few times this season.  He's lost any confidence he had coming out to claim crosses which was one of this things he was given praise for when he first came in last season.  Whether that's his decision or a coaching one, again we don't know.  But given that was a perceived strength of his, when you whittle them away either through his own decision or the coaching team, you're going to end up with a shell.  And we're getting that.

[Claridge]

15 hours ago, JimJams said:

This is the way though when it's decided a player is shit.  Especially when it's a keeper.  Every goal is blamed on that player.  For me, he's not responsible for either goal, and anyone who has played the position knows that.  The header is well placed and should be defended by a covering defender.  There's nothing wrong with his position, he's in position for an effort to the near post.  If he's covering where the ball ends up in this instance he's leaving a gaping hole for a much easier chance to his left.  If that happens people would bemoan him being beaten at his near post.

Ward was dog shit, but he did get a lot of blame for goals that weren't on him, being beaten in 1on1's or someone blasting it from 6 yards.  People hone in on the ones they've decided aren't up to it and use any situation to double down.  For a keeper, it's literally going to be any goal they concede.

When Nelson came on we twice had situations when they colluded to fxxk up between them, but I'm not sure who that was on.  He's got it in his mind to come out a fair way, and it's fxxked him a few times this season.  He's lost any confidence he had coming out to claim crosses which was one of this things he was given praise for when he first came in last season.  Whether that's his decision or a coaching one, again we don't know.  But given that was a perceived strength of his, when you whittle them away either through his own decision or the coaching team, you're going to end up with a shell.  And we're getting that.

Nelson and Jakub are bordering on useless, neither of them has any awareness on the pitch at all. Never seen a keeper so terrible at judging a cross in any form of football including kids teams. Keep him in the team, we are down he's that bad

[CrazyKopCorner]

8 hours ago, Claridge said:

Nelson and Jakub are bordering on useless, neither of them has any awareness on the pitch at all. Never seen a keeper so terrible at judging a cross in any form of football including kids teams. Keep him in the team, we are down he's that bad

Yes dreadful gauge of the flight or velocity of a ball. 

 

Among other dreadful attributes include terrible / no communication whatsoever. 

 

He was being interviewed before the Preston game and really doesn't come across as very bright. Angry at being dropped! Look a lot closer to home mate. You've been gash.  

 

You can see him and Ward have come out of the same goalkeeper school ......... both absolute muck 

 

Spot on ....... play him in the last 6 games an there's no way we'll score enough goals compared to the amount he'll ship 

Edited 5 April by CrazyKopCorner

[dmayne7]

25 minutes ago, Claridge said:

Nelson and Jakub are bordering on useless, neither of them has any awareness on the pitch at all. Never seen a keeper so terrible at judging a cross in any form of football including kids teams. Keep him in the team, we are down he's that bad

What a load of crock. He's absolutely lost confidence but that was one of the stand out areas of his game. Thinking back to Spurs last year when he came in and claimed tons of corners and crosses, something that was shocking to see since that is worst bit of Hermansen and Kasper's game, so you're probably talking at least a decade since we've seen a keeper do that consistently.

 

He's been poor and got plenty of flaws but let's not pretend that he's always been bad at every aspect of goalkeeping

[cropstonfox]

On 04/04/2026 at 09:19, FoxesFourLife said:

If Kasper's injury does end his playing career bring him in next season as our goalkeeping coach it's a no brainier.

Bring him back as manager.Somwone who cares about the club and can stand up to people above him.Someone who will get the players respect. 

[Fox92]

2 hours ago, Claridge said:

Nelson and Jakub are bordering on useless, neither of them has any awareness on the pitch at all. Never seen a keeper so terrible at judging a cross in any form of football including kids teams. Keep him in the team, we are down he's that bad

They genuinely must not communicate with each other. Any team needs a decent goalkeeper and we don’t have that, he’s a big part of the reason why we’re in a relegation battle.

[Claridge]

6 hours ago, dmayne7 said:

What a load of crock. He's absolutely lost confidence but that was one of the stand out areas of his game. Thinking back to Spurs last year when he came in and claimed tons of corners and crosses, something that was shocking to see since that is worst bit of Hermansen and Kasper's game, so you're probably talking at least a decade since we've seen a keeper do that consistently.

 

He's been poor and got plenty of flaws but let's not pretend that he's always been bad at every aspect of goalkeeping

Shocking thing he has been no where a cross since, he's absolute rubbish

[foxinsocks]

When he furst came on the scene he was good at coming fir crosses.

Yet now he hesitates.

Yesterday a ball came across the 6yd box that should be his.

 

Their second goal was a case in point. A ball to the back and their tall guy won it easily.  Yet the goalie had come halfway and stopped... so the ball looped over his head and into thefar corner.  If he had stayed on his line... he would have saved it easily.

Basically he came half way to a ball he was never going to get.

[Nods]

On 04/04/2026 at 20:31, BKLFox said:

Not sure the angles we see or any still photo gives a true picture of how he wasn’t getting that, looped well over him & out of his reach, Ricardo more at fault for moving if someone has to be blamed🤷‍♂️ 

 

All to easy to lay blame on any situation but if he was further to his right and the header puts it to his left the call is keeper beaten at his near post.

Same for the Ben mix up, had the attacker beaten Ben to the bounce and got through on goal, the shout would be where’s the keeper.

There is no way on this earth that a looped cross like that is ever going to be met with enough power for a near post effort to be a problem. You do not commit yourself to the front post like that in those circumstances. No ifs or buts, it's a mistake.

[BKLFox]

5 hours ago, Nods said:

There is no way on this earth that a looped cross like that is ever going to be met with enough power for a near post effort to be a problem. You do not commit yourself to the front post like that in those circumstances. No ifs or buts, it's a mistake.

🙄 I’m talking about what ifs 🤦‍♂️

 

You’re suggesting here that a goalkeeper knows where the flight of the ball will go in the 2nd phase of a corner, if they did there wouldn’t be as many/any goals from corners.
There is nothing wrong with his position, just left of centre (for him) with a man on the back post, he is protecting the centre & near post with Ricardo protecting the back, no keeper can protect the entire goal, unless Olivier Rioux switched basketball for soccer (cos he’s Canadian) 

 

 

 

Edited 6 April by BKLFox

[john ridley]

22 hours ago, Fox92 said:

They genuinely must not communicate with each other. Any team needs a decent goalkeeper and we don’t have that, he’s a big part of the reason why we’re in a relegation battle.

He is ,like most of the squad at best league 1 standard and next season we'll find out if that's the case .We've  let better keepers go in the last few years.

[BKLFox]

7 minutes ago, john ridley said:

He is ,like most of the squad at best league 1 standard and next season we'll find out if that's the case .We've  let better keepers go in the last few years.

Please don’t read this as me sticking up for the board or have me labelled as a happy clapper & not solely aimed at your post as it’s been mentioned before, but….. someone getting a shot in a team is all about timing, huh I hear you mutter?

 

Ok, why do you think we have let keepers go in the past?

Maybe a certain Kasper has something to do with it. We got him in 2011 or something like that and he left in 2022 playing 479 games for us with most of them consecutive.

So, are we talking about keepers we have let go between those 2 years or keepers that have gone since?

If since you’re talking about Danny Ward & Iverson with Mads having to be sold, so we have let better keepers go in the past you refer to those 2?

If in between no other keeper was pushing Kasper out the way, do we all agree?
Of those keepers in between, we’ll say Johansson as I imagine it’s him most refer to, he left 2yrs prior to Kasper leaving, never played a 1st team game & like Iverson left at the end of a contract with no sign of pushing Kasper out.

 

In the words of highlander, there can be only 1, a keepers career can quickly pass them by and imagine there are loads that only have a handful of games, take our own Logan a 20yr+ career & he played far less games in its entirety than Kasper did for just us, he even played for Denmark a 3rd of the amount of times of Logan’s entire career.
Johansson had to make a call as did Iverson, neither are better than Mads btw who jumped Iverson to be Denmarks #1 & Johansson is out the picture for Sweden despite being in his prime.

 

So as for Leicester City not being very good with keepers we had Kasper & Mads covering 12 of the past 14 seasons with only the forgettable 2022-23 which Iverson didn’t really step up and make his own & the current 1 🤷‍♂️ 

[john ridley]

Alot of what you say is correct, but having Danny Ward as No2 for so long didn't  do us any favours .It's abit similar  to having  JV at his prime for so long,  when he leaves your left with no one ready to take his place.

[BKLFox]

4 minutes ago, john ridley said:

Alot of what you say is correct, but having Danny Ward as No2 for so long didn't  do us any favours .It's abit similar  to having  JV at his prime for so long,  when he leaves your left with no one ready to take his place.

That too is very true & it probably reinforces the need to not hang on to players and recycle every 3yrs regardless of who they are.

Problem is those 2 names Kasper & Jamie are what Leicester City were all about for the 12yrs or so before they left, so maybe exceptions to the rule.

[DJ Barry Hammond]

7 hours ago, Nods said:

There is no way on this earth that a looped cross like that is ever going to be met with enough power for a near post effort to be a problem. You do not commit yourself to the front post like that in those circumstances. No ifs or buts, it's a mistake.

You’re talking rubbish.

 

Any keeper is going to follow that cross to that side of the goal - he’s in the correct position as the headers made.

[Nods]

4 hours ago, BKLFox said:

🙄 I’m talking about what ifs 🤦‍♂️

 

You’re suggesting here that a goalkeeper knows where the flight of the ball will go in the 2nd phase of a corner, if they did there wouldn’t be as many/any goals from corners.
There is nothing wrong with his position, just left of centre (for him) with a man on the back post, he is protecting the centre & near post with Ricardo protecting the back, no keeper can protect the entire goal, unless Olivier Rioux switched basketball for soccer (cos he’s Canadian) 

 

 

 

It's a floated ball in, of course he can anticipate where the best place to be is. Hint: it isn't in touching distance of his back post.

 

As I've mentioned a number of times now, a looped ball is never going to be headed with power to the nearest post. It's not physically possible. It doesn't require an ability to see the future to anticipate that.

[Nods]

2 hours ago, DJ Barry Hammond said:

You’re talking rubbish.

 

Any keeper is going to follow that cross to that side of the goal - he’s in the correct position as the headers made.

To some extent. But they won't take a panicked hop, skip and a jump and end up almost at the back post. 

 

If they did, every team for every corner would ping it to the back post and try to head it back to the front post every single time.

[BKLFox]

37 minutes ago, Nods said:

It's a floated ball in, of course he can anticipate where the best place to be is. Hint: it isn't in touching distance of his back post.

 

As I've mentioned a number of times now, a looped ball is never going to be headed with power to the nearest post. It's not physically possible. It doesn't require an ability to see the future to anticipate that.

Omd’s a keepers starting position for a corner coming from either side will be to cover the area centre to the near post (facing ball side)….it is then the outfield player assigned to the back post responsibility to cover the back post, Simpson made a career of being this player.

As a btw, I’ve not mentioned a looped ball to the near post, I’m saying if Jakob was covering centre to back post (where he would have got this particular header yes) & that header was not looped but flush on a forehead and it goes near post and in would you then be saying why was Jakub covering the back post?

[Mike Oxlong]

He's cured my constipation when he's playing the ball out to our defenders 

[Nods]

59 minutes ago, BKLFox said:

Omd’s a keepers starting position for a corner coming from either side will be to cover the area centre to the near post (facing ball side)….it is then the outfield player assigned to the back post responsibility to cover the back post, Simpson made a career of being this player.

As a btw, I’ve not mentioned a looped ball to the near post, I’m saying if Jakob was covering centre to back post (where he would have got this particular header yes) & that header was not looped but flush on a forehead and it goes near post and in would you then be saying why was Jakub covering the back post?

And how exactly are you expecting a player to generate a powerful header from a looped ball? Doesn't happen. Can't happen. 

[BKLFox]

2 minutes ago, Nods said:

And how exactly are you expecting a player to generate a powerful header from a looped ball? Doesn't happen. Can't happen. 

Wot r u on about, no one is saying there would have been a looped header to the front post i’m saying “what if” whilst (in another game if it makes it easier) the keeper is marking the centre to back post (because you are accusing him of being in a wrong starting position) and the opposition player poked a foot or & i’ll use the word ,bullets, a header to the front post side and scores…..that would be the keepers fault because that is the area ‘any’ keeper should be protecting at a corner.

I’m questioning your understanding of which area of the goal you believe a keeper should be protecting on a corner because he can’t be responsible for the entire 192m2 himself

 

[Nods]

1 minute ago, BKLFox said:

Wot r u on about, no one is saying there would have been a looped header to the front post i’m saying “what if” whilst (in another game if it makes it easier) the keeper is marking the centre to back post (because you are accusing him of being in a wrong starting position) and the opposition player poked a foot or & i’ll use the word ,bullets, a header to the front post side and scores…..that would be the keepers fault because that is the area ‘any’ keeper should be protecting at a corner.

I’m questioning your understanding of which area of the goal you believe a keeper should be protecting on a corner because he can’t be responsible for the entire 192m2 himself

 

Let me put this in terms you might understand. 

 

Ball go high in sky. 

 

Player no able to head ball hard because ball high. 

 

Goalkeeper no need worry hard shot. 

 

Goalkeeper better staying more central.

 

Goalkeeper able react obvious looped header, or weak front post header.

 

Better?

[The Doctor]

2 hours ago, Nods said:

To some extent. But they won't take a panicked hop, skip and a jump and end up almost at the back post. 

 

If they did, every team for every corner would ping it to the back post and try to head it back to the front post every single time.

ball to the far post and headed back across is actually a pretty common tactic for corners...

[Nods]

1 minute ago, The Doctor said:

ball to the far post and headed back across is actually a pretty common tactic for corners...

If it's so common, why don't we see a repeat of that goal every week? Because keepers don't act like they're in the grand national galloping to the back post.