Kevin Keegan insists he is enjoying his time back at the Newcastle helm - but will enjoy it even more once he has banked three precious Barclays Premier League points.
The 57-year-old will send his side out for the 10th time since he replaced Sam Allardyce at home to Fulham tomorrow still waiting for a first victory.
Eight of the games for which he has been in charge have come in the league and have yielded just three points, a major factor in the Magpies' descent into the fight for survival at the foot of the table.
However, the last of those points was secured by a spirited second-half display at fellow strugglers Birmingham on Monday evening, and Keegan is hopeful that 90 minutes of the same will prove too much for former club Fulham at St James' Park tomorrow.
Newcastle have not won a league game since December 15, while the Londoners have not collected all three points away from Craven Cottage since their trip to Tyneside on September 9, 2006, a run of 31 games.
A home victory would ease the tension on Gallowgate and plunge Roy Hodgson's side into deeper trouble, but would also put a broader smile on Keegan's face.
He said: "You do not enjoy not getting results, but if you mean do I enjoy the club, do I enjoy the people around the club, do I enjoy working with the players, yes.
"The thing that makes it even more enjoyable is getting results. It is much easier to come in on a Monday morning or a Sunday if you are coming in after a Saturday game, having had a win.
"But yes, I am really enjoying it. It is a club I love, everyone knows that, and it is a club that every day I am still learning something about."
Keegan returned to St James' amid a blaze of publicity in January as the club's hierarchy finally lost patience with Allardyce.
What has transpired since has been far from dull, although perhaps not for the reasons owner Mike Ashley and chairman Chris Mort might have hoped.
But Keegan nailed his colours firmly to the mast at St Andrews when he fielded Michael Owen, Mark Viduka and Obafemi Martins as a three-man attack, and got his reward when the England international stabbed home his third goal in six games.
Owen has himself been thrust into the spotlight amid suggestions that new England boss Fabio Capello, who was among the crowd on Monday evening, no longer sees him as an automatic choice.
Keegan, however, has no doubts whatsoever over the 28-year-old's enduring potency despite seeing the striker, by his own admission, suffer an off-day last time out at St James' when he missed a series of chances to allow Blackburn to snatch a late win.
The manager said: "Just as easily as we are talking about that being just his third goal in nine games since I have been here, we could be talking about a goal a game if he had stuck those chances in.
"Michael is very sharp, and if you ever needed evidence of how sharp he is, you just had to see how, out of the goalkeeper and the three players at Birmingham, he made up the ground. He was lightning quick there.
"In one little cameo there, he showed just how sharp he is."
Keegan, who has no new injury problems for tomorrow's game, is desperate for his players to use their improved display at Birmingham as a platform for a late push up the league.
He said: "We have to build on the performance at Birmingham and let's see if we can start getting this club back to winning ways because once you start to win games, it is contagious.
"When you lose games, as we have found, that can be contagious as well."
