DEAN HOLDSWORTH has told his Chelmsford City players not to be Twits this season.
The new City boss is implementing a code of conduct at Melbourne Stadium, and has asked the players not to share club information on Twitter.
Last season, winger Anthony Cook – who has been on trial with League One Colchester during pre-season – revealed on the site that players were awaiting their wages, and then announced his departure from the club, again via Twitter, citing a lack of expenses payments. Holdsworth is clearly keen to avoid a repeat of those sort of outbursts under his stewardship.
He said: "In our code of conduct, we will have an in-house policy that they can Tweet about their own lives, but what goes in at the football club is within the club walls."
Holdsworth's side began their pre-season campaign with a 7-0 defeat to Leyton Orient on Monday night, but Holdsworth was happy with his new-look squad after the first half – in which he fielded all of his new signings – ended goalless.
Trialists Matt Lock and Dean McDonald also featured in that half and, unlike many of those in the disappointing second half, they will be given another chance to impress.
"They've done very well in training and the game was another step in the right direction in their fitness," he added.
"I was really pleased with the attendance from the fans and the evening itself. We can build on that, we were playing against a very good team, some good players and in the first half especially I thought we were excellent in some things."
Midfielder Tom Davis earned much praise from fans for his performance, and Holdsworth was pleased with how the former Tonbridge Angels man did.
He added: "Tom's got a great engine, he's good on the ball and tenacious. I thought he was excellent.
"The first-half performance, there were a lot of good things going on there, more stuff we can work on with fitness, we were back in on Tuesday for training, so we need as many hours as we can get with them working with the players."
Lock and McDonald could feature again on Monday against Southend, another fixture that Holdsworth is looking forward to. "Hopefully, another big crowd will come along to that," he added. "We'll have a few new faces as well and players are getting fitter and stronger every session.
"I'm looking to bring in another four or five, if it's possible with finance. It might only be three but we'll see how prudent we are with our negotiations."
