It wasn't just this season with SO'D.
The club was dying on his feet with him as manager, twenty five hundred STH's had given up the ghost and stopped attending.
As well as all those who hadn't renewed due to the disgraceful lack of fight shown by his players in the act of ignominious relegation.
He absolutely HAD to go, his negativity was strangling the club, and a downward spiral seemed certain to continue.
Whether we've got the right replacement is another matter which only time will prove one way or another.