Caernarfon ‘disappointed’ and ‘frustrated’ over fan ban

Davies says his squad, who are semi-professional, will not have time to train before Thursday’s first leg

“Having had knocks and everything the lads need time to recover so most of our preparation will now been done through presentations and analysis and showing clips to the players,” Davies added.

“As much as we’d have loved to, being part-time we haven’t got the ice baths and everything that goes with it.

“That’s the challenge in itself, but we’ve just got to try and do the best we can and go with that.

“We’ve got all the management team watching their last five games.

“They played their first home game on Saturday night which I watched and yes it’s more about having an idea about the style of play, any patterns that we can pick up, their main strengths.”

Caernarfon’s preparations for the first leg in Poland have been further complicated by the global IT outage which has been described as “one of the worst IT outages in history.”

“It’s been a bit of a nightmare if I’m honest,” Davies said.

“We didn’t have any confirmation until late Friday afternoon if we were going to be playing Thursday or Wednesday and then we had the outage on Friday so group bookings couldn’t be done over the weekend.

“Logistically it’s been a bit of a nightmare, but hopefully we’ve sorted something out. “