Caernarfon 'disappointed' and 'frustrated' over Europa away fan ban

Caernarfon Town head Richard Davies says it is unfair that nan club’s fans will beryllium incapable to watch their Europa Conference League qualifier distant to Legia Warsaw.

The Canaries person reached nan 2nd qualifying information and will look Polish giants Legia, pinch nan first limb connected Thursday.

But nan crippled will played down closed doors aft Legia were sanctioned by Uefa pursuing crowd problem during their lucifer against Aston Villa successful nan aforesaid title past season.

“That’s nan astir disappointing point for everyone astatine nan club,” Davies told BBC Sport Wales.

“We’ve been capable to person specified a awesome acquisition retired successful Belfast and nan fans were phenomenal.

“The scenes astatine nan extremity were thing we’ll cherish forever.

“I deliberation it’s unfair that nan distant supporters are being punished for thing that personification other has done.

“That’s really frustrating but it is what it is and successful nan location lucifer we’ll effort and get arsenic galore arsenic we tin into nan ground.”

Caernarfon, nan champion supported broadside successful nan Cymru Premier, had nan support of 400 travelling fans for nan first qualifying information travel to Northern Ireland to look Crusaders.

That was Caernarfon’s first European travel and now nan northbound Wales nine look a daunting trial against nan 15-times Polish champions.

“We cognize nan task up is going to beryllium a immense one,” Davies said.

“I deliberation they are nan astir dressed up broadside successful nan title truthful it’s not going to beryllium easy astatine all.”

Last Thursday’s memorable penalty shoot-out triumph complete Crusaders successful Belfast is still very overmuch caller successful nan mind.

Caernarfon had won their location limb 2-0 nan erstwhile week and contempt losing 3-1 connected nan nighttime successful nan 2nd limb astatine Seaview, won 8-7 connected penalties.

“It was a rollercoaster of emotions during nan game,” Davies said.

“Massive alleviation to get it complete nan statement – I thought we’d thrown it distant astatine 1 point, but I’ve sewage to springiness in installments to my players to show nan resilience and nan grit conscionable to spot it out.

“When we went up 1-0 I thought that should beryllium america done, but for them to people 2 early goals successful nan 2nd half sewage america worried and past nan momentum played a portion and they sewage that third.

“To beryllium adjacent I deliberation we weathered it past and successful other time. I thought we were nan amended side, but it’s a lottery erstwhile it comes to penalties and I surely came location pinch much grey hairs than I did going there.”

Davies says his squad, who are semi-professional, will not person clip to train earlier Thursday’s first leg

“Having had knocks and everything nan lads request clip to retrieve truthful astir of our mentation will now been done done presentations and study and showing clips to nan players,” Davies added.

“As overmuch arsenic we’d person loved to, being part-time we haven’t sewage nan crystal baths and everything that goes pinch it.

“That’s nan situation successful itself, but we’ve conscionable sewage to effort and do nan champion we tin and spell pinch that.

“We’ve sewage each nan guidance squad watching their past 5 games.

“They played their first location crippled connected Saturday nighttime which I watched and yes it’s much astir having an thought astir nan style of play, immoderate patterns that we tin prime up, their main strengths.”

Caernarfon’s preparations for nan first limb successful Poland person been further analyzable by nan world IT outage which has been described arsenic “one of nan worst IT outages successful history.”

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

“We didn’t person immoderate confirmation until precocious Friday day if we were going to beryllium playing Thursday aliases Wednesday and past we had nan outage connected Friday truthful group bookings couldn’t beryllium done complete nan weekend.

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