So Steve Waggott has finally woken up and realised that his appointment Steven Pressley was out of his depth and have sacked him.
One only has to go back to that 4-0 defeat at Walsall on April Fools Day and the 2-0 defeat at Crawley Town early in Pressley's tenure to see why many City supporters felt the former Falkirk manager was not the man for the job and have continued to think that ever since.
With threats of City supporters staying away and not renewing season tickets, at any other club, Pressley would have been sacked at the end of the 2012/2013 season but with City's owners more interested in rows with Coventry City Council and Arena Coventry Limited and subsequently taking the Sky Blues out of Coventry to Northampton, getting shot of Pressley was glossed over as something those in charge either could not afford or knew they would struggle to recruit someone willing to put up with having to manage a team based 35 miles out of their city.
Fair play to Pressley for trying to turn things round and using the hole that is Sixfields to the team's advantage to overcome a ten point deduction but his tactics were soon worked out by other sides who could send their managers to City games on Sundays and Wednesdays and with the coming down of the Christmas decorations, the Sky Blues started to slide.
Pressley's patting himself on the back for keeping a team up which was capable of at least a top ten place in League One with a week to go in the season and having gone through April without a victory in a poor division, riled many.
That survival was with the likes of Joe Murphy, Callum WIlson, Franck Moussa, Cyrus Christie and Carl Baker but when they departed in the close season or early part of this season, you knew the Sky Blues were going to struggle this season.
To be fair, on paper, the players Pressley, whose jobs for his boys policy raised a few eyebrows, brought in, should have been good enough to get City to at least mid-table but his failing to get the best out of his players was evident early in the season and City were getting beat by teams who wanted the game more.
Not only was failing to get the best out of his players, one of his negative traits, one could argue that some players including Conor Thomas and a few others have actually got worse during Pressley's tenure.
There is no doubt that performances since City returned to the Ricoh Arena have been unacceptable to the City support who have been staying away in their thousands and at the end of the day, Pressley can have no qualms about his dismissal, having plunged the club to new lows which are costing the club a fortune in lost income.
Steven Pressley is a decent human being and was always decent when meeting City supporters either at forums, events or matches including the time that he ensured City supporters got into a pre-season game in Holland which was due to have been played behind closed doors and whilst we may not have agreed with some of his tactics, managerial decisions, etc during his time at Coventry City. we wish him and his family well.