No.

net spend or something.

Pardew's win % 48.11, 41.1, 31.46, 53.13

Hughton's win % with Newcastle 55.71

That suggests he isn't.

As others have said, if Newcastle were going to replace Hughton with a Jol or O'Neill, Hughton's sacking would have been a harsh but brave decision.

Sacking Hughton for Pardew though is a joke. Appointing him because he's your casino buddy makes it even worse. There's nothing in Pardew's career that makes him a suitable NUFC manager.

Quite apt really for Mike Ashley.

I remember Fergie being in touch with him last year whilst he was injured and he had been watching him for about a year before that. Never seen him play though.

Are there protests outside Newcastle's ground yet? I'm expecting burning effigies.

Old pals act if ever there was one.

Hughton has been sold down the river big style.

I am gutted. I expect us to be relegated, but we won't even go down in style - we will be relegated playing awful football.

Newcastle must be the hardest club to support in the land.

They have Liverani, one of my favourite players ever. He's class.

Have you seen that Abel Hernandez? He's hardly been prolific there, but I seen him last year and he looked a tidy player for his age. They have a former youth of ours (Kasami his name is, I think), not sure how good he's turned out, he got good reviews in his time here.

FC knocked out 0-4 to Brighton in the replay. Brighton played really well, and their professional fitness told in the end, it might have been more interesting had Cotterill converted his penalty. 7k at Gigg Lane tonight, an absolutely mental atmosphere from start to finish, it's been one hell of a journey this year!

I've never understood why football clubs/chairmen seem to place so much value on experience in a manager, even if it's consistent experience of failure. It's just a constant merry-go-round of the same blokes getting relegated, getting sacked, getting another job at a club in or around a relegation battle, getting relegated again, on and on. Why?

There's probably a reason the same managers keep getting caught up in relegation battles, so to get rid of someone doing well in favour of one of them makes no sense to me.

Two blatant penalties denied tonight. The first one the ref gave the pen but then overturned his decision on advice from the blind **** behind the goal.

But apart from those penalty calls we didn't look like scoring in the entire match. We were dire again. We got lucky when Milles hit the bar, we got lucky when the unmarked Heinze was rightfully flagged offside when he'd just headed home.

The only bright side tonight was Josh Mac who played some sublime balls through, but that's it.

Our next three games are Spurs, Man United and Arsenal. If we play those games like we have the last three then we're getting three hidings and Ancelotti will be an ex-Chelsea manager.

From the picture i saw on BBC site, it looked like Malouda had trodden on a landmine. What's with the shockingly bright alternative kits Chelsea have these days. are they THAT desperate to have attention drawn to them in any way possible?

5 and a half year deal for Pardew

Newcastle fans that had been bigging Ashley up in recent times will be feeling a little silly right now!