Despite the initial improvement that Megson brought about, the Reds season disintegrated with abysmal defeats to Coventry and Plymouth from which they never recovered.
Saturday’s 2-1 defeat at Queens Park Rangers was an ignominious ending and Megson said afterwards: “A club of this size, stature, history and tradition should not be getting relegated from this division.
“I knew the job would be tough when I joined, six points adrift and not having won an away game.
"Within a month it was obvious to me that the problems were deeper than I thought. But the attraction of the club is still there and the support has been brilliant.”
Megson went on to echo chief executive Mark Arthur’s call for wholesale changes in the summer and said that: “There is an awful lot of work to be done between now and next season.”