ANDREW Surman hopes Bournemouth’s modest approach to tonight’s meeting with Wanderers will settle the nerves.

All eyes will be on the Goldsands Ground tonight as the Cherries look for three points, which would almost certainly guarantee Premier League football next season.

A sell-out crowd will be an expectant one but the former England Under-21 international reckons Cherries boss Eddie Howe has done his best to try to take the pressure off his players in the build-up.

“We’re trying to keep it as low key as possible,” he said. “It’s a tough game and we want to go and win it.

“There’s going to be a lot of media attention on the game, obviously because it’s high stakes, but we’re trying to keep it as relaxed as possible. That’s what the manager has really enforced on us – it’s in our hands.

“We’re trying to stay focused on the Bolton game and treat it like any other one. We can’t get caught up in the emotions outside the changing room.”

Howe has encountered high-pressure games like this at Bournemouth before, albeit in very different surroundings.

Just six years ago the South Coast side teetered on the verge of dropping out of the Football League, overhauling a 17-point deduction from the Football League to survive by the skin of their teeth in the last fortnight of the season.

Howe admits the thought of promotion to the Premier League is far less daunting than the prospect of Conference football, so the consequences of failure are far less severe.

“It’s a totally different scenario and set of emotions,” said Howe. “When I think back to the Grimsby and Chester games, it wasn’t enjoyable and I didn’t relish those moments.

“It was a case of just trying to get the job done and looking to the future.

“I thought about the dire consequences and I didn’t want to be the guy who took the club into oblivion.

“Thankfully, I had some amazing players who concentrated on the football and we are very grateful to them for the position we are in now.

“The core elements of how we are feeling now and then are the same, but we should embrace this challenge in a positive way.

“There are no real dire consequences at the end of it, even if we fail in our mission.

“We are all desperate to achieve success and that pressure is felt more than anything we could feel externally.”