“It’s a bit like an old slipper, the Championship,It feels nice and warm and, do you know what, I don’t want to lose that slipper. I don’t want to move out of the Championship. I think that this club can work well in the Championship." Stewart told Paul Davis.
“This is the guy, remember, who said eight years ago ‘I can see us in the Championship in five years’ and people laughed. In five years, we were in the Championship. I came into Rotherham United to make a difference. We’ll work damned hard to stay in the Championship, to get players to compete in the Championship.”
If relegation does happen, Stewart thinks the Millers have learned as a club and will be looking to gain promotion back to the Championship; “I don’t think we were ready for the Championship, People might look and say ‘well, you’re not ready now’, but you can’t be in this league for three years and not have learned something. I think we’ve learned a lot."
“If it relegation does happen, and I’m not a defeatist by the end of the season, even if we haven’t got enough points, with the improvements we will be making, we will have a team capable of coming back and playing at that level. That’s the aim.” he added.