SWINDON Town chairman Lee Power has adamantly stated that he is going nowhere as he vows to rebuild the club for an immediate return to League One next season.

Town’s relegation from League One was sealed with a lacklustre performance at home to Scunthorpe United this afternoon, a display that epitomised Swindon’s season as a whole.

The 2-1 defeat sparked further vocal protests from the Town fans, which had been bubbling as the club's fate became clearer this season.

However, despite numerous chants of ‘Power out’ and ‘we want our Swindon back’, the club’s owner is not prepared to abandon a club that he concedes has gone backwards under his reign.

“It wouldn’t be the first or last, supporters are entitled to be angry, I’m angry,” he told BBC Wiltshire.

“We haven’t been good enough this season and they have paid good money to come and watch it and they are entitled to make their voices heard.

“We’ve tried hard. I’ve owned the football club for three years and wanted to get in the Championship and now we’re in League Two, we’ve gone backwards.

“I don’t want to go on but it’s a difficult job. We’ve had to get the finances under control, which was the main thing, or there wouldn’t be a football club, and then try and get a team that are competitive and I haven’t done that.

“I have to take full responsibility. One thing is for sure, I won’t be leaving.

“I will make sure we will get a squad together next season and fight and get our way back into League One.

“If you were at any football ground today, with any team being relegated, I’m sure the owner and the chairman will be getting the same response I got.

“That is angry football supporters and they pay good money, they're entitled to their opinion.”

With Power having been absent from his normal seat in the Arkells Stand over the past few home games, questions had been asked over his commitment to Swindon long term, having also purchased League of Ireland side Waterford last year.

However, the 44-year-old has reaffirmed his obligation to the club, putting his absences down to only being allowed to return from his home in Switzerland for 90 days over the course of the year for tax purposes, and says that playing in the bottom tier of the football league next season does not affect that.

“I’ll be here for the long haul, I have told people that and nothing changes there,” he added.

“Everyone is devastated, the team’s relegated and it’s my job now to pick up the pieces and carry on with the club.

“If I was to give up, there wouldn’t be a club.

“That is what I intend to do. It’s not nice hearing that but I understand people are angry and rightly so.

“We’ve been relegated. This club shouldn’t be in League Two and now it’s my job to get it back into League One.”