Brian Laws says he feels the pain of all the supporters following their relegation to League One after a nailbiting battle on the final day of the season.
The Iron beat play-off hopefuls Swindon Town 3-1 last Saturday but were still relegated to the basement tier of English football after Carlisle United failed to beat Colchester United at Brunton Park.The United manager told The Iron Player that he understands the supporters' pain: "It has been pretty depressing for the last three years since they were in the Championship.
"There is nothing new there for them. I feel for them, I really do. I am like a supporter really in that I have a great affection for this football club. I will always be a supporter of this football club whether I am here or not."
He added: "We have got to regroup and we need to give this football club back to the supporters again."
The 51-year-old manager believes that a lot of hard work over the summer and unity between the club and its supporters will see the North Lincolnshire outfit move in the right direction after three disappointing seasons.
Laws said: "The club and the fans have been separated and we work hand-in-hand with each other to make sure we get the best. Make no mistake there will be a lot of hard work to do over the summer in order to try and rebuild but we need some patience as well."
Since the Iron suffered relegation from the Championship in 2011 Laws feels that the club have not seen enough impressive performances and results.
He also felt that the last few seasons have been rather depressing for Iron fans as they have slumped down the leagues.
However, Laws remains adamant that he will be able to turn thing around over the summer - and with the patience of the supporters - so that they can start the revival of Scunthorpe United.
"Over the last three seasons the fans just have not seen enough wins, at home. I think that has to be readdressed, that is one of the major problems," Laws stated.
"In 2012 the club only had four wins at home. The fans have been coming here week in week out spending good money but they have not seen any rewards for it, so that is something else that needs to be readdressed.
"That is where Scunthorpe United has always based their positivity and that is where we need to start from. Glanford Park has always been a fortress and we have to reignite that again. We may have to go into League Two to start it but we have to stop the rot from somewhere. If it means starting in the basement which is something this club has been associated with for some years but we have also had some very good times and the heavy heights of the Championship."
The Iron boss added: "We must not use that as an excuse all we need to do is rebuild this football club so that we can become a great club again."
As always on the final day of the season when a club is relying on other results to go their way in order to see if they avoid the drop or get promoted, the Iron chief knew that raptures of cheers would echo around Glanford Park should Carlisle take the lead against Colchester.
However, as the game grew older and the fans had not indicated of any positive news from Brunton Park, Laws knew that it only meant bad news.
He said: "We heard nothing and we knew that that was not good news. When we got the second it was confirmed that Colchester had won and we were then flat as a pancake.
"Credit to the players though because they kept on going and got the two goals. The fairytale was not quite there for us.
"At least we did our part at least we can say that we got some self respect and self pride back. The fans will be hurting because they want to see their team in the highest division, but we will go back to the basement and we will rebuild and get stronger."
Despite being in charge of the club for two thirds of the season, Laws admitted that his players had not been good enough for all 46 matches of the campaign.
If they had worked better as a team he felt they would have had more chances to avoid relegation as they would have got a run together which could have seen them challenge for a mid-tabled place.
"46 games tells the story. A third of the season had gone when we took over and the same four teams that were there got relegated," Laws said.
"We have all tried, it is not like I am a bad manager or we are bad coaches but what we have been dealt with is just not good enough."
The Iron boss added:"After 12 games you will be able to get an idea of where you are but we have just been playing catch up ever since. You get some good results and then you hit a dip and go on a bad run and it drags you back in again."
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