Football: Barry boss Brown drops himself for Skonto.

Byline: Mark Bloom

BARRY Town boss Kenny Brown has axed four players from tonight's (7.30pm) second-leg Champions League encounter with Skonto Riga - including himself following their humiliating 5-0 defeat in Latvia last week.

Brown wielded the axe as promised after a crushing defeat, and out go his assistant Andrew York, Gary Lloyd and Tom Ramasut.

The former West Ham United player has brought in Nathan Cotterall, Dave Toomey, Lee Jarman and Leigh Pratt.

The Barry players need to put in the performances of their lives and try and earn some badly needed self respect back.

If, at the end of the 90 minutes, Barry players can look in the mirror and say they gave 100 per cent then fair enough, but that was certainly not the case in Riga last week. Too many players did not perform, not tracking the runners from midfield and not having the character to dig-in when things started to get on top of them.

Tonight in front of their own supporters there can be no hiding place or just going through the motions - they will be found-out, some players will be playing for their futures at the club. It must have been difficult for manager Brown to select his starting line-up, because in truth, he could have dropped any of the outfield players such as last week's poor performance.

Brown, who had a clear the air meeting with all the Jenner Park staff on their return to South Wales said: ``The reason behind the changes is that I want the first 45 minutes to be played at a high tempo.

``I know that if I picked the same side that played out in Riga, we would come off the field with a bit more respect. ``Now I'm giving the other players a chance to see what they can do at Champions League level.

``I have said it all the long I want players who can play Champions League - not League of Wales.

``It's also a chance for those players to prove me wrong, why they were not included in the starting team last week.

``I certainly don't want players being happy when they are left out.

``I expect them to be annoyed and tonight it's another chance for them to force my hand over the next couple of weeks.

``We certainly haven't turned into a bad team overnight.

``But they have to prove to me they are capable of going further than the standard of the League of Wales.''