To be honest it gets worse than this, I distinctly remember saying Hughton had 10 games to sort it out in his first full season after the soul destroying end to the Hyppia/ Hughton campaign. I think were top after those 10 games.
Seems a silly time to do it but he has been absolutely dire. He's taken a side playing good football in no chance of relegation problems to a bunch of cloggers with every chance of going down whilst wasting a small fortune.
Do not rate Hughton at all.