That was obvious to me after the interview and has been backed up by the programme notes. He's been given a free pass this year to solve things. I think next season will be another matter though.

I agree.Clubs cant afford a bad start next season.
Lose the first 3 or 4 matches and Radford will be on his bike.

Nail on head, we need the 'architect' to come and make the plans and lay the foundations first like McGuire, Brown, Tony Smith & Brian Mclennan did. McDermott, Wane & Anderson have all done good jobs to continue their clubs progress, but they didn't get the ball rolling.

Seems that Gentle didn't deliver on certain targets he was given.

Or, possibly, Pearson feels that he, Radford, and Tony are capable of implementing the blueprint used at these clubs without using a 'guru' from Australia. After all, it's now common knowledge what was done and how it was achieved. In fact I'd wager that Pearson asked Gentle to set these structures up and he failed to do so - see the comments I quoted above.

"I will continue to back Lee through this season and into the next".
This suggests to me that Radford may not be here until the end of next season and may be on his way if we have a bad start.

I doubt anyone at the club on the coaching side has a job for life and rightly so.

The programmes were late arriving from the printers they did not arrive until 9.25 by this time the security would not let them in.I am a programme seller and did not get paid because we did not sell any but we may get additional payment at Fridays game. There is talk of giving Hull v cas match day programme free to every person that buys one for the saints game see you Friday East Stand

Really? you think he would sack a coach halfway through next season with the structure to come? suicide.

I think he'll do it early on. First half dozen games will shape Radders future. If we're struggling as we are now then he'll be on his way.

All just excuses to justify keeping Radford and saying he's doing a good job. For as critical as Pearson may be regarding Gentle and McRae, the facts are Getntle took over Agars tem and we got 6th, the following season he got 6th and a challenge cup final. Lee Radford takes over Gentle's team and we're bottom of the league, even after being Gentle's assistant, simple as. Radford is out of his depth, and if Pearson doesn't want to see that then he's a fool.

I think AP will let Radford drive through the changes he wants. Once he's done this then Radfords job security will be dependant on results I reckon.
He only said he would back Radford into next year. Wouldn't be surprised to see a change made next year.

Yeah - absolutely. Pearson just invented everything in those notes and his interview out of whole cloth because he likes Radford.

FFS.

The security would not let them in

WHAT

the programmes were given away free in shop today in town