THERE will be a complete 'clean out' at Swindon Town this summer in the wake of their relegation to League Two.

Town, whose demise was cemented on Saturday with a 2-1 defeat to Scunthorpe United, travel to Charlton Athletic on the last day of the season with little more than pride to play for.

However, once that game is out of the way, chairman Lee Power is planning to go through the club with a fine toothcomb to get to the root of what went wrong in a season that was nothing short of disastrous for the club.

Having come within 90 minutes of promotion just two years ago, Town’s fall has been a rapid one as key players have been sold and budgets have been cut.

And having set a five-year target, in which he had hoped to see his team playing in the second tier of the Football League, Power admits that an immediate post-mortem is required to establish exactly where it went wrong this season.

However, one thing is clear, with 13 players out of contract this season, Bradley Barry and Ellis Iandolo having options for an extra year on their contracts, and seven loan players returning to their parent clubs, it is going to be another summer of rebuilding on the pitch.

“There needs to be a complete clean out, there are no two ways about that,” Power told BBC Wiltshire, alluding to the fact that he will also look at the ‘Swindon way’, which has been the cornerstone of his business model during his time in charge.

“We need the dust to settle over the next week or two, we’ll review everything, top to bottom, at the football club and one thing is for sure, the hard work starts again and I won’t rest until the club is back in League One.

“It’s something we need to sit down and analyse. There are so many things.

“We’re going to have, more or less, a clean canvas to start the season with.

“We just need to look at everything, the way that we play, the philosophy of the club, we need to learn by a lot of mistakes we have made this year and try and come back stronger.

“There is a lot of reviewing and a lot that needs to go on because this club doesn’t deserve to be in (League Two).

“It is in League Two now and we need to get back into League One.”