SCOTT Parker says it is up to him and his players to give Cherries fans "a team they're proud of" ahead of two huge upcoming home fixtures.

Parker's charges sit second in the Championship, but could only muster one point against the league's bottom club Peterborough United in a 1-1 draw on Tuesday night.

Two more sides battling relegation head to Vitality Stadium in the coming days. Derby County visit on Saturday, before Reading make the trip to the south coast on Tuesday evening.

Following the stalemate with Posh, there were audible boos from some fans in the stands, which Parker post-match described as "puzzling".

Asked what message he would like to give supporters ahead of the next two fixtures, after the reaction on Tuesday, Parker embarked on a near three-minute response.

He told the Daily Echo: "I've said it most weeks really and I’ve said it since I've come in here that the fans, in my opinion, will be the difference for us being successful at this stadium this year.

"They will play a massive part at the end of this season if this team are promoted and will have contributed and would be a big reason why that would be the case really.

"I understand the fans' frustration at the end of the game. I'm frustrated equally. I accept as well when you’re playing Peterborough at home with the team that we are, with the quality we have, it's a game that we should win and that's not being disrespectful in any way to Peterborough.

"Of course we can lose it. But I understand the frustrations at the end of the game and I accept that. That's fine.

"I think at this moment it's our job, it's my job, it's the players' job to come out every week and show passion and show desire and make sure the fans look at a team they're proud of and give them a real cause to entertain and cheer us on really.

"And hopefully during those moments they can get behind us as well.

"There is going to be parts in games when it isn't going to look the way it looks. Sometimes I'm just as frustrated as them. I'm exactly the same.

"I look at the team and there's not things I like or there's things I want to change or I'm disappointed, but I just know that I can't afford to do that at that moment.

"It's not going to be helpful to the players and I need to try and be positive and we need to try and work out the best way to try and get a result.

"At the end of the game, the equivalent of the fans booing is me coming in the changing rooms and being disappointed and expressing that. And I think that's the best place or the best time to do that.

"Between the start of the game and during it, there are loads of bumps, there's loads of things that happen in football matches and we just need to stay committed and supportive and they have been and I'm sure there will be."

He continued: "Two massive games (next). There’s nothing more I want than fans coming into the stadium just wanting to support us and cheer us on.

"There's nothing that the team want more, when we're preparing all week or we're coming in, we want to go into a game and entertain the fans and we want the fans to be proud and we want to win games four or five nil, and everyone be happy.

"But I've been in this game long enough to know that it just isn’t as easy as that sometimes."

Cherries, who have games in hand on all sides in the division, sit 14 points behind leaders Fulham. Parker's men lead third-placed Huddersfield Town on goal difference, while, for contest, QPR down in seventh are six points further back.