{"id":661123,"date":"2026-05-10T04:06:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T04:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/661123\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T04:06:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T04:06:11","slug":"finlay-curtis-on-loan-rangers-wingers-kilmarnock-world-cup-aims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/661123\/","title":{"rendered":"Finlay Curtis: On-loan Rangers winger&#8217;s Kilmarnock &#038; World Cup aims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There&#8217;s one word that springs to mind when describing Curtis&#8217;s display against St Mirren: clinical. He had three shots, two on target, both goals, and good ones.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He showed the quality that had him featuring regularly for Rangers in the early days of Russell Martin&#8217;s tenure, scoring three times in the Englishman&#8217;s first six games, including in Champions League qualifying.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He&#8217;s since scored four in Kilmarnock&#8217;s last six games under McCann and Billy Dodds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Curtis was pushed forward by his fellow players when the squad took a well-deserved post-match ovation from a sizeable travelling support.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A player-of-the-match performance with his double, which took the game away from St Mirren, he was a constant nuisance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And his numbers show a player who&#8217;s happy to muck in &#8211; 45 touches, 24 passes with an accuracy of nearly 67%, two key passes, one tackle, and two fouls won.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The most important column of all, of course, is the goals tally. And his brace has gone a long way to securing top-flight survival for his adopted side.   <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Afterwards, he paid tribute post-match to McCann and Dodds, to his team-mates, and to the fans who&#8217;ve taken him to their hearts with their own special song.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He says Rangers are getting a much better player back when his loan ends next weekend and that he&#8217;ll be sad to leave Rugby Park.   <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;d definitely say it&#8217;s been a beneficial loan, both on and off the pitch,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s one word that springs to mind when describing Curtis&#8217;s display against St Mirren: clinical. He had three&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-661123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}