Tommy Wright praises chairman Steve Brown's prudent running of St Johnstone

The Perth boss has been promised an increase in his budget this summer as Saints look to protect their place in the Ladbrokes Premiership top six next season.

With Rangers and potentially Hibs coming up, Wright knows competition in the top flight will only get stiffer and is glad to be getting the support of Saints chairman Steven Brown.

But he stressed the McDiarmid club would continue to work on a prudent basis, with their profit and loss margins based on at worst a 10th-place finish.

That target has been easily achieved after Wright's team secured a place in the top half of the table for the fifth season running.

The same cannot be said of Killie, who last week reported they had lost an "unsustainable" sum of £724,406 for the year to May 30, 2015 after missing out on their aim of seventh place and head towards the relegation play-offs.

Wright's men can boost his cash reserves even further by seeing off Ross County on Saturday as they look to finish fourth and the boss told Press Association Sport: "There will be increased competition for the top six with Rangers coming back up and the chairman has already stated we will have to increase the budget a bit.

"We run a pretty steady ship anyway so hopefully we can increase the finances available and allow us to attract the quality we need to maintain the standards we have set over the last few years.

"Reaching the top six is important but we budget to finish 10th every year. If we were not to get to the top six it would not be a financial disaster.

"I don't know if the reporting is accurate on this but I heard Kilmarnock budget for seventh and have ended up making huge losses. We won't do that.

"We budget for 10th so everything above that is a bonus.

"We have had continued success on and off the pitch and that goes hand in hand with each other.

"The chairman is a realist though, and he knows the league is getting stronger and tougher. He's running the club in the right way but he feels the budget does need to increase."