He shot himself in the foot when he picked that weaker team to get hammered by Chelsea, then lost the game to Toon. You have to win the game when you do that.
Well this is true but you can't really blame him for resting players against chelsea ahead of a winnable game.
He came out with a hilarious quote not long ago, something along the lines of not concerning himself with a relegation battle, instead looking towards a top 10 finish. I heard it on talksport a few weeks ago but it was quite funny.
Still it will be interesting to see who stoke hire now, i can't really see any viable candidates for the job, people like sam allardyce and roy hodgson who are good at stabilising teams have been recently appointed elsewhere. I think the timing of it all is quite bad, It didnt seem like Hughes had lost the changing rooms which would give reasoning to sack him and there are no stand out candidates to save them