Hearts' Everton loanee Ellis Simms speaks on biggest defeat of career and using Duncan Ferguson advice to bounce back

Sunday’s setback at Ibrox was the biggest drubbing of Ellis Simms’ career but, a player who worked with the indomitable Duncan Ferguson at Everton, he is already looking to how he can rebound from that disappointment with a mood-enhancing performance against Dundee at Tynecastle on Wednesday.

"It's disappointing to lose any match and the way we lost, it was a big margin. But, in football, things move on quite quickly,” said Simms.

“There are games thick and fast in this league so we can move on from it. We have the next focus and hopefully we can get the win.”

Still a relative newcomer, Simms, who has already opened his Gorgie goal account, has quickly sussed out that at a club like Hearts, where securing third spot is just one of the season’s ambitions, there is little patience for defeat.

But, he will have learned that working with former Dundee United and Rangers striker Ferguson. An influential long-time member of the Goodison Park coaching team, the Scot is a strong character and fierce competitor and despite having a softer side, according to Simms, is never likely to be mistaken for someone who would accept defeat lightly.

"A loss is a loss, really. So, we are all disappointed. Rangers are a good side, but we didn't perform to our best and we know that,” explained Simms, who is on loan from Everton until the end of the current campaign. “On our day, we will do well and we have to move on now.

“In training with Duncan, he gives me tips. So it’s great to learn and ask questions on how I can improve, that’s definitely helped me a lot.

“When you get to know him, he’s a nice guy, I got on well with him and like I said, he’s a great guy, who’s helped me a lot.”

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