Devonshire Colts president Lee Holder believes relegation to the First Division could be just what the club needs.Holder said Colts have been “hanging on by their teeth” to their top-flight status for a couple of years and reckons dropping down to the second tier will allow them to get their house in order.Colts, a former powerhouse in domestic football, have been in a slump in recent years and narrowly missed out on going down in each of the past three seasons.This term, however, they look doomed for relegation as they are nine points adrift of safety with only three matches left.But Holder doesn’t necessarily see relegation as a bad thing and believes it could be a blessing in disguise.“I’ve talked to some of the coaching staff since our last game and will have more formal discussions as the week goes on, but we recognise where our programme is right now and we have been hanging on by the skin of our teeth the last few seasons,” he said.“We realise that in the long run we haven’t developed the quality and consistency to get the results to stay up, we have recognised this and are fine with how things are at the moment. “Obviously no one wants to be losing but you have to be honest with yourself and we are just that.“We have some honest triers, and full credit to them, but we aren’t put off by the situation we are in and we are realistic.“Devonshire Colts measure ourselves in other categories besides trophies, although in sports that is the main focus.”Last season, it was Somerset Trojans coach Dennis Brown who accepted defeat in the fight to avoid the drop. Brown has used the club’s season in the First Division to blood their youngsters with Trojans now leading the division and are favourites to win the title.Now Holder wants Colts to do the same as they look to revamp the structure of the club and restore it to its glory days.“Relegation will give us a chance to get a few players back for next season as well as bringing a few of our younger players from the under-16 ranks into the team without any pressure,” he said.“One of the things that we need is players and people in general that want to be there, this is the time to get things sorted out and we will take that time to do this.“We have spent a lot of years trying to build our programme back up to where it needed to be and we are at the under-16’s now and it is good.“There were talks in years gone about scrapping the senior programme, so we just want to do what we can do to get everything back in order and for Colts to get back where we were in the past.”