User blog comment:PokemonTDHTF98/TDAS: What if Courtney is Replaced with another contestant./@comment-1037137-20141019184312

It's not Courtney in this season who needed to be replaced in this canon fodder, she just needed to be allowed to keep her redemption, break the bad trend she's been mired in.

If anybody, Mike is the one who should've been replaced, or Sam. Or even Lightning, as unpopular an opinion as that is.

I would've taken any one or more of those five in the place of the people I just mentioned. LeShawna is pretty much a must, I have no idea how the writers just conveniently forgot she existed. Bridgette's also an excellent choice, and so is Izzy. Dakota and Dawn are not exactly All-Stars but they're both likable and pretty entertaining. (Yeah I do not care if Dawn's overrated, okay?) Hard to single it down to one among the five, but any of them would've been better choices in the place of Mike or some of the other dudes in this season.