I know that Randyl Tarly is such despicable man but what makes people think he will betray the Tyrells in favor of the Targaryen but what evidence is there to imply or insinuate this change of loyalties?

So we know from ADWD that the Golden Company say they have friends in the Reach, former Blackfyre supporters who still harbor a secret loyalty to the Black Dragon. I think House Tarly fits the bill. 

They’re not just a Reach house – and the heart of Daemon Blackfyre’s coalition was in the Reach – they’re also house of the Dornish Marches. The Tarlys of Horn Hill are right up in the foothills of the Red Mountains, standing smack-dab between the Dornish and Highgarden. They feel about the Blackmonts and the Daynes the way the Carons feel about the Fowlers and the Dondarrions about the Wyls – a deep burning hatred cemented over thousands of years of border wars.  

Add to that the warrior ethos of House Tarly – Daemon Blackfyre, who was in his time the living embodiment of the warrior, would have been an irresistible draw compared to the Samwell-like Daeron II. 

So I think the Tarlys fought for House Blackfyre, at least in the 1st and possibly in the 3rd Rebellion, and have been waiting for another Blackfyre to come again. 

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