By Stuart Roach BBC Sport Online

The clouds on Coventry's Sky Blue horizon could soon be blown away by the club's emerging young stars.

Coventry ended a recent run of five straight defeats with impressive back-to-back away wins over Stoke and Wolves last week.

And former Sky Blues winger Steve Froggatt believes Gary McAllister's young guns are aiming in the right direction.

"Gary McAllister has done a brilliant job," Froggatt told BBC Sport Online.

"Before the start of the season I thought they would be certain relegation candidates.

"McAllister had a really difficult job when he took over the club. They have no money and he had to sell all of his best players.

"That's not really the best grounding for a promotion challenging campaign."

But Froggatt, who finished his career with three seasons at Highfield Road, believes adversity has brought the best out of the club.

"They have brought loads of kids from the youth team into the side they are all adapting very well.

"Next year Gary will be expecting to get a little bit more out of them."

McAllister has been forced to blend his inexperienced youngsters like Jay Bothroyd and Gary McSheffrey with a number of loan players.

Rosy future

Four of the side that won at Wolves on Saturday are on loan and McAllister has had a total of six this season as the club bridge the gap caused by consolidation.

Froggatt can see a rosy future for the club, with a new stadium in development as well as the foundations of a new squad being put into place.

"There is a lot of doom and gloom in the area in that they have lost their best players and they are in financial debt.

"But they are building a new super stadium just off the M6 that is due to be completed in a couple of years time and things aren't looking bad.

"I am sure they will grow together as a group the next two or three seasons, just as Paul Hart's young team has at Nottingham Forest."

Froggatt's optimism reflects the mood at Coventry in a week when Mike McGinnity was unanimously re-elected as chairman.

McGinnity, who brought McAllister to te club in the summer, is waiting for PFA approval for a 12% deferral of player wages and hopes to reduce the wage bill by �3m next season.

And McGinnity can see the club's fortunes changing.

He said: "With the opening of the new stadium in 2004, the academy and the club hopefully back in the Premier League, I have high hopes for the next few years.

'Something for nothing'

That academy set-up is now in the safe hands of Coventry goalkeeping legend Steve Ogrizovic and Froggatt believes his is a crucial role.

"There is a huge emphasis on bringing the kids through, and I think in general in the First Division that's how things are going to be now.

"There is no money for big wages or big transfer fees.

"Everybody wants something for nothing now."