Who would Rooney have appointed?

[geysir]

In what way? The Cork chairman made public his grievances - I don't see why he should retract them so suddenly. It's easy to see how much leaning power the FAI have though...especially with invitational leagues and the like.

If it is as you write, it's a turnaround worthy of a Soviet lackey and would outspin even a Dunphy or a Haughey. The exaggerated nature of the turnaround is so bizarre that I can think there is a case for interpretating it as too bizarre to be believable.
If the chairman was out of order with whatever he may have said about Givens, then why not just apologize for intemperate remarks. Merely call loud and clear for positive support for the national u21 team and for Cork fans to leave behind any grievances and get behind the team. In calling for lifetime bans he has participated in a spineless 'only following orders' excuse, timid in the extreme.

[pineapple stu]

If it is as you write, it's a turnaround worthy of a Soviet lackey and would outspin even a Dunphy or a Haughey. The exaggerated nature of the turnaround is so bizarre that I can think there is a case for interpretating it as too bizarre to be believable.

Do you want to look back to what was said about it at the time both here and on the Cork forums before dismissing it as "unbelievable"?

[geysir]

Sorry stu, maybe I did not express it properly in order for you to get that interpretation. Me saying that it is possible that he made his comments so bizzarre that no one in their right mind could think he was sincere about it.

If he did mean it as stated then the rest of my post stands.

"dismissing it as "unbelievable"?" is something I did not write nor intend.

[pineapple stu]

Apology accepted! I can see you're using "professional scepticism" rather than outright dismissiveness, I suppose.

Like I say, the facts as I know them are as I've put up. Something happened in between. Obviously I don't know what that something was. You can choose to go with the theory that Lennox has no spine (which you mentioned) or that the FAI are akin to communist USSR (which you also mentioned). I think in a thread about the FAI, the issue has to be raised anyway.

I do know Cork fans were livid about it, and they would know Lennox more than most.

[geysir]

You can choose to go with the theory that Lennox has no spine (which you mentioned) or that the FAI are akin to communist USSR (which you also mentioned).t.

eh! not in what I wrote, I am beginning to doubt your interpretative skills
"it's a turnaround worthy of a Soviet lackey"
Thats is a clear reference to Lennox and only Lennox.
"theory"? More accurate may be, it's a valid enough opinion based on the set of "facts" you presented.