Jack Stobbs

Jack Thomas Stobbs (born 27 February 1997) is an English footballer who plays as a winger for Northern Premier League Premier Division club Grantham Town.

Jack Stobbs
Stobbs pictured in July 2017.
Personal information
Full name Jack Thomas Stobbs[1]
Date of birth (1997-02-27) 27 February 1997[2]
Place of birth Leeds, England[3]
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)[2]
Position(s) Winger
Club information
Current team
 Grantham Town
Youth career
2005–2014 Sheffield Wednesday
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2014–2020 Sheffield Wednesday 5 (0)
2017–2018 → Port Vale (loan) 5 (0)
2019–2020 → Livingston (loan) 4 (1)
2020– Grantham Town 4 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 08:19, 4 November 2020 (UTC)

He turned professional at Sheffield Wednesday in March 2014 and made his first team debut the following month. He joined Port Vale on loan for the first half of the 2017–18 season and started the 2019–20 season on loan at Scottish club Livingston. After being released by Wednesday he signed with Grantham Town in October 2020.

Club career

Sheffield Wednesday

Stobbs joined the Academy at Sheffield Wednesday at the age of eight, and signed his first professional contract with the club in March 2014.[4] He made his senior team debut on 26 April, coming on for Joe Mattock 60 minutes into a 3–1 defeat to Bolton Wanderers at Hillsborough, in what was the final home game of the 2013–14 season.[5] However he suffered ankle ligament damage in a friendly at Matlock Town in the 2014–15 pre-season, which left him having to regain his fitness in order to try and force his way into manager Stuart Gray's first team plans.[6] He had to wait until the last day of the 2015–16 season to make his second appearance for the "Owls", when he came on as a 79th-minute substitute for Atdhe Nuhiu in a 2–1 loss at Wolverhampton Wanderers on 7 May 2016.[7] He signed a new one-year contract in June 2017 after captaining the U23 team to the Professional Development League 2 North title and National Championship in 2016–17.[8]

On 17 August 2017, Stobbs joined newly relegated EFL League Two club Port Vale on loan for the 2017–18 season; manager Michael Brown said that "[chief scout] Darren Wrack has worked very hard on it and he is a good, exciting, young player".[9] However he struggled to even appear on the first-team bench, and speaking in October, new manager Neil Aspin blamed league rules that prevented him from naming more than five loanees in a matchday squad.[10] He was recalled by Wednesday on 2 January 2018.[11] New Wednesday manager Jos Luhukay put him into the first-team and gave him a new ​2 1⁄2-year contract.[12] He featured in one EFL Cup game in the 2018–19 season.

On 20 August 2019, he joined Scottish Premiership side Livingston on loan until 1 January.[13] He scored on his "Lions" debut, his first in professional football, in a 4–1 victory at Ross County on 24 August.[14] The strike was later named as the best goal in Scottish football of the 2019–20 season by the Glasgow Times.[15] However injury restricted him to just further three appearances in the remainder of his spell at the Almondvale Stadium and he was released by Wednesday at the end of the 2019–20 campaign; he was informed of his release via Zoom due to the COVID-19 pandemic in England.[16] Stobbs said that he was upset at being released after 17 years in such circumstances but understood it was necessary due to the government's pandemic regulations; he went on to comment that "He (Garry Monk) had not seen me play and I had not trained with them due to being up there (Livingston), so he didn't really know anything about me. I had hoped to come back and be involved more than I was but it didn't work out like that.[17]

Grantham Town

On 15 October 2020, Stobbs joined Northern Premier League Premier Division club Grantham Town.[18]

Style of play

Speaking in August 2014, Sheffield Wednesday manager Stuart Gray said that Stobbs is "one of those who runs at defenders in one-versus-one situations and he's got a great habit of putting the ball between the posts for someone to score".[6] Stobbs himself stated that "I've got a bit of pace and I like to take people on, I like to get to the byline, get crosses into the box and, where I can, I try to get a few goals".[6]

Career statistics
As of match played 28 September 2019
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League FA Cup League Cup Other Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Sheffield Wednesday 2013–14[19] Championship 1000000010
2014–15[20] Championship 0000000000
2015–16[21] Championship 1000000010
2016–17[22] Championship 0000000000
2017–18[23] Championship 3000000030
2018–19[24] Championship 0000100010
2019–20[25] Championship 0000000000
Total 5000100060
Port Vale (loan) 2017–18[23] League Two 5010002[lower-alpha 1]080
Livingston (loan) 2019–20[25] Scottish Premiership 4100000041
Career total 141100020171
  1. Appearances in the EFL Trophy

References
  1. "Retained List 2016-17" (PDF). English Football League. Retrieved 13 June 2017.
  2. "Jack Stobbs". 11v11.com. AFS Enterprises. Retrieved 16 July 2018.
  3. "FootballSquads - Port Vale - 2017/2018". www.footballsquads.co.uk. Retrieved 1 February 2021.
  4. "Rising star". swfc.co.uk. 19 March 2014. Retrieved 17 August 2017.
  5. "Report: Sheffield Wednesday 1-3 Bolton Wanderers". www.swfc.co.uk. 26 April 2014.
  6. Howson, Dom (4 August 2014). "Sheffield Wednesday: Jack sets sights on first-team place". Sheffield Star. Retrieved 17 August 2017.
  7. "Wolverhampton Wanderers 2-1 Sheffield Wednesday". BBC Sport. 7 May 2016. Retrieved 17 August 2017.
  8. Howson, Dom (28 June 2017). "Sheffield Wednesday: Jack Stobbs extends his Owls stay". Sheffield Star. Retrieved 17 August 2017.
  9. Baggaley, Mike (17 August 2017). "Port Vale sign Sheffield Wednesday winger Jack Stobbs". Stoke Sentinel. Retrieved 17 August 2017.
  10. Baggaley, Michael (12 October 2017). "Neil Aspin sympathises with Port Vale's loan players". Stoke Sentinel. Retrieved 12 October 2017.
  11. Baggaley, Michael (2 January 2018). "Port Vale loan pair Stobbs and Pyke recalled by Sheffield Weds and Huddersfield". Stoke Sentinel. Retrieved 2 January 2018.
  12. Holt, Chris (16 February 2018). "Two more young stars sign new Sheffield Wednesday contracts". Sheffield Star. Retrieved 16 February 2018.
  13. "Jack Stobbs: Livingston land winger on loan from Sheffield Wednesday". BBC Sport. 20 August 2019. Retrieved 20 August 2019.
  14. Southwick, Andrew (24 August 2019). "Ross County 1-4 Livingston: Jack Stobbs scores debut goal in thumping win". BBC Sport. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
  15. "Player of the Year awards: Herald and Times Sports writers pick winners for top gongs". Glasgow Times. 18 April 2020. Retrieved 14 May 2020.
  16. "Sheffield Wednesday exit confirmed, 'waiting game' begins for young attacker". www.thestar.co.uk. Retrieved 14 May 2020.
  17. Howson, Dom (13 May 2020). "Sheffield Wednesday winger lifts the lid on his Hillsborough exit". YorkshireLive. Retrieved 14 May 2020.
  18. "Jack in the Box!". www.granthamtownfc.com. 15 October 2020. Retrieved 16 October 2020.
  19. "Games played by Jack Stobbs in 2013/2014". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 1 January 2017.
  20. "Games played by Jack Stobbs in 2014/2015". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 1 January 2017.
  21. "Games played by Jack Stobbs in 2015/2016". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 1 January 2017.
  22. "Games played by Jack Stobbs in 2016/2017". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 1 January 2017.
  23. "Games played by Jack Stobbs in 2017/2018". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 1 August 2017.
  24. "Games played by Jack Stobbs in 2018/2019". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 1 August 2017.
  25. "Games played by Jack Stobbs in 2019/2020". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 1 August 2017.
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