I think if malky had stayed the chances are we would still have gone down.
Although we wouldn't have made such a cock up of things as ole subsequently did. Think of the millions we threw away under him.
We never picked up points at a rate that would have seen us stay up, just for a while other clubs were worse.
We also initial picked up more points than the underlying stats suggested we should have, so it was probably never sustainable.
When other teams at the bottom got their shit together and went on a run, we had no answer.