So, we're all at work and the mobile phones are exploding all over the joint. People with hitherto no expression of interest in football let alone the affairs of Newcastle United are running up and down corridors, giggling and telling all in sundry "Keegan's back at Newcastle". I'll be utterly honest, I was absolutely dumbfounded, clocked off and just waited for the avalanche of texts and phone calls. And in they came. "What do you think?" being chanted out like a mantra.

What I think is this - people are happy, people are optimistic, possibly massively overly so but people who love the club are excited, they are thinking of good times and fondly loved fellows, people are looking forward to going to SJP again and everyone is positive. That's a good thing and that's a start.

Despite the grotesque misfortune to have been sat next to the worst bloke in the world at the Stoke game who sang "Your late and you know you are" as I sat down (he deserved a good scudding to be honest, but he was bigger than me so I got my revenge by making sly, knowing looks to the lads behind him who were on full cup game whopper alert and calling him Tim Nice But Dim on account of his Scenty Bottle patta), harassed to fucking death, its obvious the ground was buzzing, though it could have been laughing at Stoke City fans and the worst accent in the world - "Kigin uz a winkur" - apparently.

People, if you are happy, then we've decided to suspend reason, caution and everything we've been hammering on about in the last 9 years at true faith, and we'll be happy with you. Saturday promises to be one of those days when the whole ground is packed to the gills with happy, people, proud of their club and expectant about seeing some good football which will lift them from the mundanity of everyday life and thrill us with the skills of professional footballers who practice playing football every day. Players who will pass, dribble, shoot, think, run and all of the things which makes football such a joyous feast for the huddled masses.

There are loads of positives about Keegan back at NUFC. Firstly, the players if they have anything about them whatsoever will enjoy going into training, will enjoy playing football, will feel as though they can express themselves as footballers and they will be encouraged to do so and they will never feel more confident. KK will get another 10-15% from them. Players like Emre, Duff, N'Zogbia, Milner, Owen, Ameobi, Viduka et al will never feel more loved for their skills, will never have felt the schoolboy exuberance of what it is to play football. Secondly, all the shite we've heard over the last few years about managers "losing the dressing room" is now over. KK never lost an NUFC dressing room. The players will know everything about pulling on a B&W shirt and what it means. The players will have pace, passion and purpose. Thirdly, Kevin Keegan is the most successful disciplinarian there has ever been as manager at NUFC. His players don't dick about at this club, they train 100% and they are committed to the club or they are fucked off. Fourtly, something which will appeal to Mort-Ashley - the intensity of our support will increase in equal measure to the profile of the club locally, regionally and internationally. Keegan at NUFC is big box office.

But. And there are loads of buts. After the Ra-Ra-Ra of this week slows down and the dust settles. Huge questions remain. By his own admission, KK isn't a great tactician, isn't a great coach and needs to appoint the men who will give the players the direction they need in those areas. Expectations are sky high now but the football landscape on which KK climbed with NUFC in the mid-90s has changed massively. It is far tougher now to make progress then it was 15 years ago. The Premiership has become segmented, with the top 4 forming a cosy cup winning monopoly with those outside having to be content with talk of the top 6 and a decent cup run. This is the modern world. Ladies and gentlemen, curb your enthusiasm. Keep a sense of proportion in what can be delivered this season or next and the one after that. It will take a lot of money for NUFC to get back to where it was when KK left eleven years ago.

There has to be a plan. KK and his circle of coaches (please appoint proper ones with fancy badges and a bit of a clue about how to lock down a game and do some of the ugly stuff please) need to look after the first team squad but for God's sake the Academy has to be addressed. This just can't be a pop star gimmick of a managerial appointment with the forlorn hope of turning the clock back.

There are rumours doing the rounds that Chris Coleman could be a No.2 to KK. What a great appointment that would be - Coleman is a bright, tough young coach who did a great job at Fulham and knows his way around The Premiership. There is no place for Alan Shearer on KK's coaching team because Gosforth's finest, just isn't a qualified coach and if one day he is to come to NUFC as manager, then I'm afraid Shearer needs to go and get his hands dirty at a bit of "a nothing club" - like Keane at Sunderland (Roy's words not mine). But Coleman will need to be joined by others with a proven track record in what they do. The infrastructure needs building up, we need a scouting network to get all over the world and bring the best to NUFC. The club needs to think in the long term far more deeply and strategically than it ever has before.

We'll be welcoming Kevin back to the club, he is one of Newcastle United's favourite sons but we don't want to go back to the future and all the mistakes that were made back then amongst the good times we had. We want better from everyone at Newcastle United.

Welcome back King Kev!

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