Dandy Town will be hoping tomorrow’s top-of-the-table match with Robin Hood survives the weather, rather than have the match rescheduled for a night game at Goose Gosling Field where Hood play their home matches.

Goose Gosling Field is Dandy Town’s home ground for night matches and though they have a good record there, including a 5-1 hammering of Robin Hood in their opening league match last September, they are keen to play at St John’s where they thrashed Devonshire Colts 8-3 on Sunday.

St John’s has been a fortress for Town this season, but it is also floods in heavy rain, leaving tomorrow’s fixture in doubt if the bad weather continues.

“The game is going to be at St John’s on Sunday,” Willis Dill, the president of Western Stars, said yesterday.

“When we were supposed to play Devonshire Colts [on December 6] I went out there 10 o’clock in the morning and called the game off and some people were most upset with me. It was a decision I made as it was still raining. As far as I’m concerned we are playing at St John’s on Sunday.”

Dill is coming up to his first year as the club’s president and it has been a good year so far, with the cricket team winning promotion and now the football team running away in the Premier Division title race.

Victory tomorrow would see them leading the table by at least ten points, and already there is a general consensus that Town will win their eighth league title with a few games to spare.

“When it comes to the playing of the game those are matters for the coach and the players to deal with,” Dill said. “The members and fans would love for them to win the league with games to spare, but we don’t play the game and it is for them to make that determination.

“Last year we started out with just one point from the first five games and coming down to the end we drew two games that, in my opinion, we should have won.

“One was against [Southampton] Rangers and the other against North Village. We ended up losing the league by one point and in my opinion we ‘gave’ the league to Somerset more than Somerset winning it.

“This year we started out far better than we did last year and are proving we are worthy contenders to win the league. I’m very confident.

“Some people look at the nine points as three games, which it is, but at the same time it is three games that the other teams still have to win.”

Having failed to reach the final of both the Dudley Eve Trophy and Friendship Trophy, Town have only the league and FA Cup left in their season, after starting off the campaign with a 3-0 win over the Trojans in the Charity Cup.

“Even people who are not Dandy Town fans probably feel the league is won, even at this stage,” the president said. “When you look at all the matches in both divisions this is a big weekend for both the Premier and First Division.”

Last night’s matches at Devonshire Recreation Club were called off because of the weather and have been rescheduled for Monday. Devonshire Cougars play Southampton Rangers and Wolves meet Paget in the First Division encounter.

Tomorrow, North Village host PHC, Somerset play Boulevard at home, and Devonshire Colts meet Hamilton Parish at Police Field.

Tonight, last season’s two relegated teams, Flanagan’s Onions and St George’s Colts, will meet tonight at Goose Gosling Field in the First Division.