Bookies favourite Alan Pardew attracted just 14 votes in a newspaper poll of fans on who they wanted as the new Newcastle manager.
Indeed, Chris Hughton, who was sacked on Monday, received more backing in the on-line survey carried out by the city's evening paper, the Evening Chronicle.
There were more than 1,000 responses to the poll with Pardew claiming less than two per cent of the vote - interestingly, Hughton managed three times that.
Predictably, Martin O'Neill, who is understood not to be one of the front-runners for the job, was a runaway favourite with a 42.3 per cent share, while Martin Jol attracted 32.8 per cent of the votes before it emerged that his interests may lie elsewhere.