Westmeath are going all out to beat Dublin in this weekend's Leinster SFC final, according to determined captain Ger Egan.

Paddy Power rates the holders as 1/500 favourites to retain their provincial crown but Egan insists that the Lake County are not travelling to the capital on Sunday to make up the numbers:

"What we showed in our three championship games so far is that we've gone out and attacked the game and we've pretty much tried to outscore our opponents," the Tyrrellspass clubman told The Irish Examiner. "Maybe that's a bit of naivety, but at the end of the day we still only conceded six points against Meath in the second half.

"Hopefully, we can get our defensive system a little bit better again, as in holding them a bit more, but we're definitely going to go out and attack them the way we can. Because that's the best style we're capable of playing.

"That's why we're going to have to start an awful lot better, get the intensity up straight away. And I think the lads will. We'll relish the occasion. We're in bonus territory, we've nothing to lose. If they beat us by 30 points on the day, well, then they're after proving everyone in the country right, but if we go out and cause a shock, like we did the last day, so be it.

"We'll be hugely disappointed if we don't win, we're there to win, simple as that. We don't go into any final just to compete."

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