Carlisle United 1 Swindon Town 5: Carlisle's survival hopes were dealt another damaging blow as they lost heavily to Swindon and Jordan Jones was sent off - and Mike Williamson faced more calls for his head.

The Cumbrians endured a miserable day at Brunton Park as ex-Blues man Dan Butterworth scored for Swindon along with Aaron Drinan, Joe Westley, Paul Glatzel and Will Wright.

Joe Hugill's first goal for United was a slim consolation while wide man Jones was dismissed in the 66th minute after receiving two separate yellow cards for diving.

And fans who stayed behind after full-time chanted "Out, out out" as Williamson headed down the tunnel after the head coach had come onto the pitch to applaud the crowd.

Carlisle's gap to survival remains five points but they fell back to the bottom of League Two with their season plunging deeper in crisis and the mood of supporters plummeting further.

United's season hit a new low in spite of 11 January signings having been made, a crowd of 7,457 enduring the Blues' heaviest defeat of a wretched campaign.

Butterworth shot Swindon ahead in first half added time before sub Drinan fired them further ahead early in the second half.

After Jones saw red, sub Westley made it three in the 83rd minute and, after Hugill pulled one back, another sub in Glatzel broke for a fourth and then Wright's corner went directly in with the final kick as Carlisle conceded five at home in the league for the first time since August 2013.

It proved another dismal afternoon despite a bright start to the game for Carlisle, whose latest arrival Joe Bevan made his debut as a second half sub.

United boss Williamson made three changes to his starting line-up, with Terell Thomas starting for the first time since early November, and Kadeem Harris and Will Patching also recalled to the XI.

Cedwyn Scott and Sean Fusire dropped to the bench while Aaron Hayden was out of the squad following Tuesday's head injury, Ben Barclay back on the bench - along with new signing Bevan.

Swindon's Holloway made four changes, ex-Blues attacker Butterworth promoted to the side along with Nnamdi Ofoborh, Jake Cain and Tom Nichols, who took the places of Joel Cotterill, Westley, Drinan and George Cox.

United made a sharp start and on four minutes an attractive passing move saw Callum Whelan and Hugill combine before Elliot Embleton was tackled as he prepared to shoot.

Ollie Clarke had a shot blocked for Swindon but United did the bulk of the early pressing, and when Ryan Delaney struggled to clear Jones' cross, Hugill turned and shot but cleared the bar from a great position.

Patching was next to go close, glancing a header across goal from Harris's cross. And later Jones' inswinger was just out of the arriving Williams' reach at the back post.

United's attacking then went into a lull as Swindon grew into the gamer, Butterworth drifting into space outside the box to see a shot blocked.

The visitors then lost captain Clarke to injury as Drinan came off the bench, and Carlisle then broke from a Swindon corner but Harris's touch was loose as he tried to make the most of home debutant Josh Williams' supply.

Jordan Jones was sent off for two alleged dives (Image: Ben Holmes)

Jones was then booked by ref Ross Joyce who felt he'd dived when cutting past Tunmise Sobowale, Carlisle not best pleased by the decision.

Jones then came close to finding the breakthrough as Whelan found Hugill on the right and the striker cut the ball across the box, but Sobowale got there to block as Jones arrived to finish.

Swindon then threatened late in the half as a disguised Butterworth pass found Nichols in space to the left, but Gabe Breeze saved his shot.

Yet Carlisle were then punished seconds before the break as Swindon won the ball and Butterworth found space to run into the box to the left and, though Breeze got a hand to the shot, he couldn't keep it out.

Butterworth stood and eyeballed the Warwick Road End as he celebrated his goal at his former club.

Carlisle's hopes of a fightback were then hit by a disastrous start to the second half.

After they struggled to deal with a Swindon attack, Patching's intervention only saw the ball deflect back to the visitors, Drinan then getting it in space to the right of goal before drilling across Breeze and seeing his shot go in off the post.

Carlisle tried to respond but Harris failed to make the most of a promising position to the right of goal.

Williamson replaced Embleton with Scott and, after Harry Smith and Gavin Kilkenny had chances for the visitors, the Blues went close when Hugill was put in to the left but Bycroft saved his shot.

Things, though, then got even worse for United as Jones beat two Swindon men, went down as Ofoborh closed in, and his hopes of a free-kick were dashed as Joyce instead blew and, for the second time in the game, showed the wide man a yellow card for diving.

It meant United would finish the game with ten men, Williamson then sending on Bevan for his debut at Patching's expense, before Scott's deflected shot failed to trouble Bycroft.

Ofoborh almost powered in for a Swindon third, the midfielder shooting across goal from the left before being replaced in a triple visiting change which also saw Butterworth applauded off by many Blues fans.

There had been a resigned air around Brunton Park for some time prior to this, and Swindon sub Westley almost reached a low cross for a third, Breeze getting there just ahead of the striker.

Carlisle were now toiling for any sort of chance, Harris slicing wide when fed on the run by Thomas, before being replaced by Fusire, United also introducing Ethan Robson for Whelan.

But the Blues were then well and truly finished off as Swindon peeled them open and Glatzel squared for fellow sub Westley to poach the visitors' third.

Josh Williams fails to reach a cross (Image: Ben Holmes)

The 83rd-minute goal was the cue for many fans to leave and a Breeze save from Kabongo Tshimanga prevented Holloway's side adding a fourth.

Carlisle then pulled one back when Hugill brought the ball down before firing crisply past Bycroft from the edge of the box.

But Swindon swiftly restored their three-goal advantage in the 90th minute, breaking from a United corner and Glatzel clipping home from the left.

United and keeper Breeze then failed to prevent an injury-time Wright delivery from slipping over the line as an awful afternoon ended on an appropriately dismal note.

Tranmere Rovers' 3-1 defeat to Colchester United ensured United's survival gap remained five points with 18 games to go. But Morecambe's 4-2 win over Fleetwood - including two goals from reported former Blues target Andy Dallas - saw Carlisle slump to the bottom of the table.

United: Breeze, Lavelle, Thomas, McArthur, Williams, Jones, Whelan (Robson 80), Patching (Bevan 70), Embleton (Scott 53), Harris (Fusire 80), Hugill. Not used: Lewis, Harper, Barclay.

Goal: Hugill 88.

Booked: Jones. Sent off: Jones.

Swindon: Bycroft, Sobowale, Delaney, Wright, Ofoborh (Westley 74), Cain, Clarke (Drinan 29), Kilkenny, Butterworth (Glatzel 74), Nichols (Cotterill 62), Smith (Tshimanga 74). Not used: Barden, Chard.

Goals: Butterworth 45, Drinan 47, Westley 83, Glatzel 90, Wright 90.

Booked: Smith, Delaney.

Ref: Ross Joyce.

Crowd: 7,457 (433 Swindon fans).