SIMON Francis has not started worrying about the Premier League’s trickiest wingers just yet – as he wants to avoid sleepless nights.

The full-back, who has started 41 of Cherries’ 45 Championship games this season, is like his club set to grace English football’s top flight for the first time.

Cherries are primed to finalise their promotion at Charlton tomorrow – Francis’s former side – and the 30-year-old insists his thoughts are yet to turn to potential wing opponents next term.

Asked if he had considered his defensive duties for the 2015-16 season, Francis told the Daily Echo: “I don’t want to have too many sleepless nights – I want to enjoy the summer first!

“I’ll probably doing more defending next season but given the way we play, we want to be attacking.

“We’re not going to sit back, especially at home, because that would be foolish against top teams. You’re asking to concede goals.

“We’ll play our normal game and if that involves me getting up and down the wing as often as possible then I will relish that challenge.”

Francis has featured at every level of the Football League during his career and has always harboured dreams of playing in the top flight.

Cherries’ 3-0 success over Bolton on Monday all but ensured promotion for Eddie Howe’s side and the realisation of Francis’s hopes.

It was a prospect that the defender had first deemed a possibility after Cherries had earned promotion to the second flight in 2012-13.

Francis continued: “I’d probably say it first crossed my mind when we got promoted from League One after the manager had come back and had laid out his plans for the future.

“He clearly had ambitions and I thought then that it was the best chance of my career to play Premier League football, because of him. I thought he could take us all the way with the squad that we had.

“We ended last season on a high and learned from it.

“We have had a great season this year and promotion is fully deserved.”