{"id":346957,"date":"2026-03-25T11:39:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T11:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/346957\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T11:39:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T11:39:07","slug":"scotland-key-questions-for-steve-clarke-in-final-pre-world-cup-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/346957\/","title":{"rendered":"Scotland: Key questions for Steve Clarke in final pre-World Cup camp"},"content":{"rendered":"

Scotland assistant coach Steven Naismith hailed Curtis’ drive to move out on loan and not be content with being a squad player at Rangers.<\/p>\n

“This desire, this instinctive nature to get chances,” Naismith added on BBC Sportscene when analysing the youngster’s weekend goal.<\/p>\n

“He’s got a bit of pace, he’s direct, he commits defenders – these are all things that have caught the eye.”<\/p>\n

Former Celtic and Hibernian midfielder Scott Allan added on the BBC’s Scottish Football Podcast:<\/a> “When we don’t have Gannon-Doak, we don’t have someone who can really travel with the ball. Curtis does have that.<\/p>\n

“Yes, he’s still developing and doesn’t always have that final ball, but that can be worked on. We aren’t blessed with a lot of pace, especially in the attacking areas.<\/p>\n

“You have to have pace in those areas, especially when at times we’ll be forced back and when we’re then trying to get up the pitch. Players with pace can be the difference.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scotland assistant coach Steven Naismith hailed Curtis’ drive to move out on loan and not be content with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-346957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}