Ger Egan says Westmeath will go all out to attack Dublin

It is becoming a feature of this year’s Leinster football championship that teams are being given all sorts of sound advice about defending stoutly against Dublin and promptly ignoring it.

For Longford, parking the bus against Dublin would have amounted to football heresy and they duly lost their quarter-final tie by 27 points. In defence of Kildare last time out, they met a Dublin side bang on form and nothing short of positioning 15 men on their own goal line was going to contain them.

With all of that in mind, you might imagine Westmeath would be thinking in pragmatic, defensive terms ahead of Sunday’s provincial decider.