PAUL TERRY almost capped a big week for the Terry family with his first Orient goal against Carlisle. But the O's midfielder was satisfied with a positive goalless draw - he spoke to leytonorient.com after the game.

Paul, what did you make of that performance?

"I think we deserved to get three points. We worked extremely hard, and we've been working on it all week, closing down and getting in people's faces. I think we applied ourselves well, and we were on top for most of the game."

Carlisle dominated possession early on - was that a hangover from our recent results?

"It might have been, the last two games haven't been the best performances from us so perhaps subconsciously we had a few nerves there. But once we settled down after those first 20 minutes I thought we dominated and were very unlucky not to win it.

"It felt like we created more chances than they did, we got it into the feet of the front two and played from there, and it was a much, much better display than we've put on over the last couple of weeks. So that's a fresh start for us, getting back to what we do best, we've done that now and if we can put that in every week then we'll win more games than we lose."

Would you have taken the draw before the game?

"If we're honest, we probably would have done - after the way we've been performing recently anything we could get and build on would've been a positive. So a point's not the end of the world. I know we want to win our home games but it's a vast improvement on where we've been the last 10 days. Carlisle are going to be up there, they'll be in the top four I'd imagine. They're no mugs but we've made them look ordinary today."

You had a decent chance in the first half - will your first Orient goal ever come?

"I know, I thought I was going break my duck there, I caught it well but I just dragged it a little bit wide. It'll come soon I hope. It seems a long way off at the minute but I'll just keep working, hopefully keep myself in the team and once the first one comes hopefully I'll pick up a couple more."

A good week for the Terry family generally though, with John getting the England captaincy again?

"Absolutely, I'm delighted really. I'm biased but I think he's the natural leader of the team. I'm just really, really pleased for him to keep hold of it."

Paul Terry was talking to Si Hawkins.