In my opinion, more often than not a football clubs success is proportionate with the amount of money thrown at it ie Man City.
There was nothing wrong in NC setting the bar high and his dream, sorry aim, to be mixing it with the best and pushing for a place in Europe was admirable and you would not expect anything less from a hardened and successful business man. But lets be honest, if I opened a chain of grocery stores I would be doing it with the fact that I would have to throw mega millions at it and it would still not even dent Tesco's share.
Where saints are now I am fine with, being realistic I could not hope for anything more but I do not blame NC for aiming high.
The only thing that has left a sour taste in my mouth is not throwing everything at FA cup and wasting a golden opportunity to enlarge the coffers, raise saints profile and to show those who have not experienced how it feels to win the FA cup.