SCOTT Parker again saw Mark Travers step up for Cherries at a vital moment and insisted: “It's a sign of a top keeper.”

The Maynooth-born star denied Bristol City striker Chris Martin with the hosts leading 2-1 at Vitality Stadium on Saturday.

Frontman Martin had turned the ball goalwards from Jay Dasilva’s menacing cross before Travers pulled off a sublime stop from point-plank range.

And Parker, whose side went on to win 3-2, insisted the stop summed up the Ireland international’s campaign.

He said: “It's a sign of a top keeper that in big moments makes big saves.

“Saves you think ‘wow he should not have saved that, he's kept us in the game there'.

“Over the past three or four months, Travs is coming into the realms of making big saves at big moments and Saturday was a massive save.

“That’s not just Saturday. That's happened over the course of it.

“I'm very pleased with Travs, he's done brilliant, he's developed brilliantly. Rob Burch and Gaz Stewart have done an incredible job with him.”