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Derby Dancing Demanded?

James Dailey
Sep 16, 2026
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Just how bad was it? What, if any, potentially new issues may have contributed?

Rhiann and I already began the autopsy on the flagship podcast, and we will dive deeper on Extra Time (recording Friday), but one potentially notable develop that concerns me was Camilo Duran’s performance.

Given the captain’s comments subsequent to the game, and the fact the club have tracking data that we do not to objectively measure how much players ran, I think it is reasonable to speculate the Duran was at least one of the players McGregor referenced:

Rangers were a team and we looked like a team of individuals who wanted to do our own thing, play when we got the ball and not necessarily run when we don’t have the ball, that’s the one thing you can’t do when you come here, is not run. You can’t defend with six players, it’s impossible.

We’re trying to get the message to everyone that we have to be a team and we need to find a way to do that quickly because we lost a big game to LASK and lost another one today.

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