As they prepare to embark on their first Leinster club campaign, St Nicholas are ready to give a good account of themselves. The Louth JFC winners open their knockout programme away to Westmeath champions St Mary's, Rochfortbridge this weekend and manager Hugh Downey is optimistic: "It's new to us to be playing at this time of year but I watched the Westmeath final and the standard was lower than I thought it would be. They have a good corner forward and a strong midfield, but we certainly have nothing to fear. "I don't know if having home advantage will have much of a bearing, but we are well capable of beating them and everyone is in a positive frame of mind. "There's no Meath or Dublin teams in our side of the draw and I would imagine the hardest round to get over is the first one." Tweet

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