I'm not a great believer in the whole "away from home" psyche.
The only factor with any kind of effect is a more vociferous opposition support and to a professional sportsman even that should be negligible. Home or away, its the same opponents on a pitch of similar dimensions.
JED needs to learn fast that this wing back approach does not work at this level - the players just aren't good enough.
4 at the back please. I'm not so old fashioned that I'll go the whole "4 4 fuking 2" but please, 4 at the back. I don't mind 2 holding midfielders as long as one isn't Taylor, then 3 interchanging behind a striker (which must IMHO be Long)
We have the personnel to do this - we don't have the players to play this poxy 5-3-2 which just leaves us overrun in midfield, exposed down the flanks and reliant on hoofball as our main attacking outlet
I tend to agree with the formation thing, we need to simplify it as much as possible and remember that we are dealing with lower league players - it's all very well chelsea playing with wing backs but they have world class players. I can see this going one of 2 ways - either JED changes the system to prove that he is tactically flexible as he suggested in his interviews during pre season, or more likely knowing how stubborn managers are he'll persist with a formation that doesn't work.