As anyone who bought a house in Ireland in the last five years will tell you, jumping on board a moving bandwagon can be a very dangerous game. Mistiming such a jump were one to take it literally would result in a serious dent to one’s physical well being, much like mistiming such a metaphorical jump could similarly result in a serious dent in one’s financial well being. Obviously it’s a lot easier to limit one’s exposure in the betting game than it is when buying a home, but there is still plenty of risk attached in looking at a graph and guessing that the recent upward trend is likely to continue.

From several weeks back, Off the Ground was looking forward to this weekend’s betting and suspected that there was likely to be real value in taking a punt on Tír Chonall Gaels to surprise Kilmurry-Ibrickane. The London champions have participated in this competition in each of the past two seasons and two creditable performances resulted in games against Crossmaglen Rangers in 2008 (0-10 to 0-6) and Corofin last year (2-7 to 0-6).

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