He has done better than I expected, but you cant say he has been a roaring success as he has spent large parts of the season on the sidelines. Best striker in the last 10 years? He could be but at the moment he is behind Beckett and Porter, for one simple reason, we know what they did but we are speculating on how good Hughes could be.
And he has definitley not united the fans more than any other player in recent memory. As coco said, that man is Eyresy. Everyone, and I mean everyone who supports latics loved number 28. The same can not be said about Lee Hughes. Whilst I think he has looked good and I think we are missing him at the moment, I still dont think we should have signed him, and he will never have 100% of fans behind him like Eyresy did.