NEIL Lennon wants to put down a marker for next season by wrecking some promotion parties in the course of the next few weeks.

Wanderers welcome high-flying Norwich City tomorrow and also come up against Brentford and Bournemouth in the final five games of the campaign.

Though it is not in the way Lennon intended when he first walked through the doors of the Macron in October, his side are going to have a say in the top six, one way or another.

And he is demanding the same standards set in Monday’s superb 3-0 win at Cardiff to ensure the Whites end on a high.

“It’s important we finish strongly,” he told The Bolton News. “I think now we’re relatively safe, so we can relax a little bit without looking back over our shoulder all the time. For me it’s job done.

“At one point we were looking at the play-offs but we had so many important injuries we had to get players in at short notice.

"That does affect consistency, but now we are starting to get players back – Mark Davies will be fit for the weekend – we are starting to look strong again.

“We will be dangerous for the likes of Norwich, Brentford and Bournemouth.

"We want to put down a marker for what we want to do next season.”

Norwich have lost just one of their last 13 games and are second in the Championship. But the Canaries will have a clearer view of their title chase come tomorrow afternoon, with leaders Bournemouth in action at Brighton tonight.

Lennon has one eye on last season’s finish under Dougie Freedman, but still needs 10 points from a possible 15 to match that target.

“The club got 59 points last season and we’d like to match that,” he said. “It won’t be easy, but it’s a total I’d like to hit.

“We don’t fear anyone at home and the result at Cardiff will give us a massive psychological lift.

“I won’t have us say our season is up – we have got Bournemouth and Brentford to come and we want to spoil some parties.

“We have our own agenda.”

Lennon also bristled at the rearrangement of Wanderers’ game at Bournemouth, now due to be televised as a potential promotion party for the Cherries.

“We have to be as professional as we can,” he said. “They have put the game against Bournemouth on a Monday night and if they think we’re going to go there and play second fiddle to anyone, they’d better think again.”