TO those of us on the outside, Galway’s trip to London for Saturday’s Connacht senior football quarter-final smacks of a junket.

But the team management and players will be having none of that. Galway will be on guard to avoid the fate that befell Leitrim in New York last year.

Odds of 1/100 against the Tribesmen falling to a shock defeat sums up the scale of the task facing Division Four minnows London in Ruislip on Saturday (3pm).

On league form, only Waterford are rated inferior to the exiles but Galway will be mindful of when the teams last met in the championship, in May of 2019, they only carried the day on a 0-16 to 1-9 scoreline.

Though Galway will be short some key players, it is anticipated that there will be a bigger gulf between the teams on Saturday, particularly as London have regressed in the interim.

Pictured: Galway Johnny Heaney of Galway in action against Fearghal McMahon, left, and David Carrabine of London during the teams last championship clash in May of 2019.