THE rebuilding project at Swindon Town will start with haste says chairman Lee Power as he predicts Saturday’s relegation from League One will cost the club at least £1million.

A 2-1 defeat to Scunthorpe United at home confirmed Swindon’s demise as they will start next season in the bottom tier of the English Football League.

Scenes had turned sour at the County Ground on Saturday before the final whistle had sounded with stewards being forced to escort a handful of fans who made a beeline for the Swindon dugout to direct their frustrations at head coach Luke Williams and his assistant Ross Embleton, while supporters were later seen turning on each other in the Arkells Stand.

However, Power has called on fans to stick together behind the club as he plans to start preparing for what he hopes will be an immediate return to League One.

“It will start tomorrow,” he told BBC Wiltshire.

“I’ve got to start looking at things tomorrow, in all different positions throughout the football club.

“Getting relegated has probably cost the club another million pounds so we’ve got to look at the finances again and just hope, now is not the time to say that, but the supporters stick with the club and we can get a squad and a team together to get back.”

Power, who set out ambitions of taking Swindon to the Championship when he first took over the club in 2013, however, was not shirking his own role in Swindon’s fall from grace in League One.

“It’s just a feeling of devastation,” he added.

“I didn’t expect to be in this position at the start of the season but tables don’t lie and we simply have not been good enough I think, right from top to bottom.

“I’m the owner and chairman of the football club and I have to take full responsibility for that.”

While Power was left shell-shocked in the wake of the game on Saturday, Swindon being condemned to League Two was something he had feared much earlier in the season but was unable to arrest their free-fall.

“I think in February, after the Oxford game, I had genuine concerns,” he explained.

“We put a couple of decent victories at Fleetwood and Millwall and you think, ‘ok, maybe we will do it’ and then I think the must-win games were Milton Keynes and Wimbledon and as soon as we didn’t get anything out of that, the writing was on the wall.

“We can’t really go to those games (needing wins), it’s just the whole season, we haven’t been at the races and that is why we are where we are today.”