YOKER boss John McAuley admits he is excited about the prospect of his first game in charge at Holm Park.

Since taking over from the departing John Brogan, McAuley has played his first three games away from home.

But, he admits he is relishing the opportunity to lead out his side at home for the first time when Renfrew come to visit on Saturday for the Ferry Derby.

McAuley smiled: “I’m really looking forward to it and I can’t deny that I’m excited.

“It will be good to go out there on my own accord and obviously with the backing of the fans, who have been brilliant since I have took over anyway.

“The players are also looking forward to returning to Holm Park after four weeks on the road.

“But, it should be a good day and hopefully we can pick up a result, we won’t take Renfrew’s position into account and will treat it like every other match.” However, McAuley concedes Saturday’s 2-2 draw with Maybole was tough to take after squandering a two goal lead.

First half strikes from Mark Maxwell and Gary Arbuckle put the Who Ho in control at the break but a long delay following a head knock to JP McKeever affected Yoker, allowing Maybole in for two late strikes.

He said: “It is a hard one to take, especially the way the result came about.

“There were some poor decisions from the officials, Maybole got a penalty that wasn’t a penalty and then the goal after they were awarded a goal kick when we should have had a corner.

“It was just a day where nothing seemed to go for us at times. The decisions combined with John Harvey missing a penalty just didn’t seem to go our way.

“If John bags the penalty the tie was over by half time. But at 2-0 you are always catchable and once they got their goal they were always going to go in search of an equaliser." However, the talking point of the tie was the injury to McKeever. The defender suffered a horrendous head knock that required hospital treatment following a deep cut in the second half.

McAuley explained: “JP had to go to hospital during the game.

“When he got there he had to get stitches and 10 staples to keep the wound closed so as you can imagine it was a really nasty injury.”