Video: Forget Paul the Octopus, there’s a Llama predicting the results of the Ulster Championship

Remember Paul the Octopus? You’ll have forgotten he even existed if the new ‘Dalai’ Llama makes the impact we expect him to make on the GAA punditry scene this summer.

Ever since the arrival of Paul the Octopus, the eight-legged soccer guru who achieved worldwide fame and recognition for his correct predictions during the 2010 World Cup, run of the mill predictions from ‘expert’ pundits don’t cut the mustard anymore; we need a novelty forecaster to tell us how games are going to go whether it’s in soccer, rugby, or particularly with the Championship about to kick into gear, the GAA.

With that in mind, rather than hearing who Joe Brolly, Pat Spillane et al believe will win this year’s Ulster Football Championship matches, wouldn’t you rather see how a member of the animal kingdom thinks it will go down?

Taking that as their cue, weekly GAA newspaper Gaelic Life, in association with Tom Duffy’s Circus, have recruited Aztec the 'Dalai' Llama to find out who he believed will win each of the upcoming Ulster Senior Football Championship games.

For now, the llama didn’t want to get ahead of himself and was content to predict the winner of this weekend’s clash between Cavan and Armagh and it seems that the Breffni men will have plenty of reason to celebrate on Sunday evening.

Sceptics will suggest that the llama simply went for the bucket that was closest to him but that would be a gross slight on his forecasting abilities.

The llama has spoken, but saying that, we wouldn’t be putting the house on Cavan based solely on this forecast either.

Thanks to Ciaran Woods and the lads at Gaelic Life for giving us the heads up on this one.