Unbeaten start pleases O'Rourke
February 13, 2017
Monaghan manager Malachy O'Rourke.
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<p>Malachy O'Rourke was looking at the glass half full rather than half empty after Monaghan's draw with Cavan.</p>
<p>While disappointed not to collect both points, the Monaghan manager took solace from his side's unbeaten start to their Allianz League Division 1 campaign.</p>
<p>"Certainly three points out of the first four, we would have thought of that as a good return before the start," he is quoted in the Irish News.</p>
<p>"It is just disappointing because when you have home games, you like to win them but we just did not do enough to win it.</p>
<p>"We are glad to take the point because it could have gone either way, although at the end we worked the ball in well and Owen Duffy had a chance but he put it wide.</p>
<p>"We got a point out of it and we will take it. We knew that Cavan would set up defensively and that is why teams do that: they become hard to break down."</p>
<p>O'Rourke didn't agree with his Cavan counterpart Mattie McGleenan that it was a 'fabulous game'.</p>
<p>"I would say that looking at the scoreboard, 0-7 each, there was not that much to get the supporters enthused," he quipped.</p>
<p>"Cavan set up defensively and we did as well and both found it hard to break each other down; there were a lot of misplaced passes and a lot of attacks finished up without even a shot at goal. There is no point dressing it up, it wasn't a great spectacle."</p>
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