Source: Bournemouth_Echo
Cherries' Robinson: Pressure is playing for the club's future - not the play-offs
MIDFIELD general Anton Robinson says the pressure of the play-offs is nothing compared with playing for Cherries' very existence.[LNB] Robinson was part of the squad that secured the club's Football League status in spite of a mountainous 17-point deduction in 2009.[LNB] The 25-year-old scored his first goal for the club in a must-win clash at Chester City on April 18 that year a strike that went more than a long way to helping Eddie Howe's side beat the odds and avoid dropping into the Conference.[LNB] And Robinson, who should line up in central midfield for Saturday's play-off semi-final visit of Huddersfield, believes a different outcome could have sounded the death knell for the Dean Court club.[LNB] Robinson told the Echo: We are the underdogs but we have achieved something already simply by reaching the play-offs whereas teams like Huddersfield and Peterborough were backed for automatic promotion. The pressure is certainly on them rather than us and that could go in our favour.[LNB] There is always going to be pressure on these big games but we have played in more pressurised games than these a couple of years ago we were playing in games where, if we had lost, AFC Bournemouth could have been extinct.[LNB] The future of the club depended on those games at the end of that season, like the one away at Chester, and this play-off semi-final will be nowhere near as high-pressured as that.[LNB] I'll never forget that period when we escaped relegation. I'm proud to have been part of that and it will always stay with me.[LNB]
