So surley someone like Brian Smith would have been the ideal choice for a job like that? Not a rookie coach. I honestly don't see what foundations Radford is putting in place, he's going from week to week trying to win games and finish as high as possible. I'm not blaming him TBH, he will have known that not finishing in the 8 would have been a disaster. We have no real defined style of play or direction, it was even admitted that the senior players had to request a change in style of play, although I do respect Radford's open mindedness in that situation TBH. Some of our best performing players this year have been Rankin, Ellis, Pryce and Mini none of whom have any real long term future at the club and will all need replacing, most of our talented younger players have either been sold/released, gone backwards under him or not getting a look in. While the signings look good for next year, I'm not sure retaining Micheals and Yeamo are great forward thinking moves either. All sides need a transition period and results can generally be either totally ignored or at least allowances made when sides are in transition especially if a lot of young inexperienced players are being played, but I would hardly call this side a transition side.

Winning will obviously increase gates but the coup for Pearson would be to appoint a first class coach.That would have a bigger impact on fans buying a season pass than signing The likes of Pritchard.It would also show fans he has admitted his mistake appointing Radford.
Apart from Pearson there are very few people who have any faith left in Radford as a coach.

No. Saints have no bank debt, and was majorly financed (currently £15m) by a friend of Eamon McManus who also happens to be a Saints fan. The club can pay this back at any rate, and any debt remaining at the end of the 2018 will be liquidated into shares (or postponed) and the club will again be completely debt free. It will all come down to whether McManus wants to retire, and if he does the baton will be passed into a fan whose already proven his commitment financially (or at least that's my current understanding)

Interesting. If that's the case, how come saints were so skint during the build process?

Mcmanus still poured a lot of his own funds into the project, as well as modernising the training and youth facilities as an aside, and paying off directors loans we had outstanding from the early days of SL at the same time - i think McManus + sale of kr made up the remaining £10m for the stadium. I also think an element of idealism (a saints team in a saints stadium) meant we could have invested more in the playing side but chose not to - but that's more personal conjecture than what the accounts say.

I'll have a closer look on the saints accounts when they're published like I always do, but I'm 95% that's what was gleaned from last years accounts, and presume the accounts this year say the same...

Whatever, you're in a much better financial position than us