Posts Tagged ‘Kilmurry-Ibrickane’
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).
Let’s paint a hypothetical picture for a moment, where two clubs are set to meet each other in a crucial provincial championship tie. Club A is playing in their fourth provincial campaign this decade, and this year has reached their third final in four attempts, including one win and one runner up spot in their previous two tries. Club B is playing in their third provincial campaign, and has reached their first final, after two first round exits in their previous forays.
This year, Club A has knocked out the reigning provincial champions, and secured another win away from home. Club B has played both their games at home against moderate opposition, and indeed was very lucky to emerge from their semi final intact, with many pundits feeling that they were certainly no better and possibly a point or two worse than their opponents on the day.
To round it all off, Club B is missing their two best players since the first round, going some way to explaining the dip in form for their most recent match.
