Plenty will be at stake tonight when Robin Hood entertain league champions Dandy Town at Goose Gosling Field.

Both teams will be desperate for the points for different reasons, with Town, the defending champions, hoping to stay in the title race while Hood will be looking to ease their relegation fears just a season after being promoted.

This could be the most important couple of days of the season for Town as they will be eliminated from the title race if they lose tonight, and Somerset Trojans, the league leaders, beat Devonshire Cougars tomorrow night.

Already seven points behind Trojans, who top the league with 28 points, four more than second-placed Hamilton Parish, Town must win to keep their slim hopes of defending their title alive.

However, a big win would see them leap-frog Parish into second, which would be their highest position of the season.

North Village were eliminated from the title race after only managing a draw against St George’s at the weekend, leaving four teams in the hunt for the league. Town could also fall out of contention, though victory would lift them level on 24 points with second place Hamilton Parish, their highest position this season.

So tight is the points spread in the middle of the table that Robin Hood will move ahead of Town if they manage to win. However, defeat would leave them stuck just a point above the relegation zone.

In tonight’s First Divison match, promotion seeking BAA look set to extend their winning streak to ten matches against an Ireland Island Rangers team that beat them back in early November. Victory would move BAA into third place ahead of Somerset Eagles, who they play on March 15, the same day Devonshire Colts and Boulevard meet in a top-of-the-table clash.

“We are well grounded, remaining humble and we don’t look at our schedule as being an easy run in,” Kenny Thompson, the BAA coach, said after the team’s win over Boulevard, a team that thrashed them 6-1 back in November. It was their last defeat in the league.

“Definitely our start to the season taught us that we have to be focused in every single match. We’re not looking from the perspective of any game being easy, we treat every match as massive and have to approach it that way.”

n Robin Hood’s match with North Village, scheduled for Saturday night at Goose Gosling Field, has been put back to Monday night at 9pm at the same venue.