Tom Chaplin

Defensive Midfielder - Free Agent
25 Oct 2029
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114 Edition

The Milton Keynes Dons Herald

2 Oct 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad2 Oct 2028

Thomas Kaminski damages knee ligaments — 75 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 75 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Match30 Sep 2028

No end in sight to Milton Keynes Dons's wait for a win

13 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Milton Keynes Dons has to find a result from somewhere.

Match30 Sep 2028

Nowhere to hide for Milton Keynes Dons

0‑5 against Cardiff City, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.

Match30 Sep 2028

Milton Keynes Dons leaking at the back

6 matches, two or more conceded in every one of them. Sides that create as much as this can live with it for a while. Nobody lives with it forever.

Squad2 Oct 2028

Josh Laurent signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Josh Laurent and Milton Keynes Dons agree another 2 years.

Squad2 Oct 2028

Josh Laurent in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Milton Keynes Dons this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad2 Oct 2028

Words at Milton Keynes Dons training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Néstor Albiach is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Boardroom2 Oct 2028

Inquest at Milton Keynes Dons

The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.

Player ratings2 Oct 2028

The chances came and went for Ben Wiles

6 shots, and a count that reads like a good afternoon until you check the other column. Strikers survive weeks like this on the understanding that the chances keep arriving; the day they stop is the day it becomes a problem.

In brief

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The Milton Keynes Dons Herald

4 Sep 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad4 Sep 2028

Thomas Kaminski damages knee ligaments — 104 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 104 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad4 Sep 2028

A fracture rules Callum Paterson out for 27 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Milton Keynes Dons will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Match2 Sep 2028

8 matches without a win for Milton Keynes Dons

The run now stands at 8, and the questions being asked around Milton Keynes Dons are no longer polite ones.

Squad4 Sep 2028

Tempers go at Milton Keynes Dons

Josh Laurent was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad4 Sep 2028

Real improvement from Paul Roberts at Milton Keynes Dons

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Paul Roberts is 18, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Match2 Sep 2028

A bad afternoon for Milton Keynes Dons against Queens Park Rangers

0‑2 to Queens Park Rangers, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Player ratings4 Sep 2028

Ben Wiles runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 12. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings4 Sep 2028

Braian Cuello leaves them behind him

Shots: 7. Goals: none. The chances were there and they were good ones, and they went into the stand, the goalkeeper's arms and the side netting in roughly that order.

Player ratings4 Sep 2028

A day to forget for Néstor Albiach

Marked 5.65, and generously at that. Nothing came off, and by the end the crowd had stopped expecting it to.

In brief