31/10/2011 : Statto's Corner : Away The Lads
31 October 2011 : Away The Lads
Flip a coin in the air and watch it land. On a flat surface it will finish either head side up, or tail side up. Unless you were holding a weighted coin, you have a 50:50 chance of it finishing up as heads or tails. That doesn't mean that if you toss that coin 100 times that you are guaranteed 50 heads and 50 tails, but the end result should be in the region of 51:49, 49:51, 52:48 etc. If you end up with 80 heads and 20 tails, this is either a freak result, or you ought to be looking closely at the person who gave you the coin in the first place!

The same should apply to cup draws in football. Stick a bunch of balls in a bag and the odds of you coming out as the Home or Away tie should be 50:50. Not if you're Yeovil Town, it would appear. Yesterday's pairing of the Glovers with Hereford United was the twelfth time in the last thirteen FA Cup draws that Yeovil have come out of the hat as the away side. The only exception to that rule is the November 2008 home tie against Stockport County and even that one ended up being settled at Edgeley Park. The last time Yeovil Town had an FA Cup tie that did not involve setting foot on an opposition team's ground was the January 2004 glamour tie against Liverpool.

In the Carling Cup, the Glovers have been a little bit more fortunate in cup draws, playing five matches at home, with six away from home. But when it comes to the Football League Trophy, we're back to the oddly polarised draws, with only two out of the club's last ten matches being drawn at home.

All in all, the club have been given eight home draws in cup competitions since that Liverpool game. However, that compares with a total of twenty-six away draws. Put in ratio terms, that means we've got roughly a one-in-four chance of getting a home draw in a cup competition. If the League Cup is excluded, we've had three home ties in twenty-three draws in the FA Cup and Football League Trophy - that's just 13 percent coming out of the bag first, giving us just over a one in ten chance of getting a home tie.

Any more of this and we'll have to start seeing if the Football Association are sticking Ball No.48 in the fridge before the draw is made ...

FA Cup Since 2004:
Home Draws: 1 Away Draws: 12
Home Matches: 3 Away Matches: 13

League Cup Since 2004:
Home Draws: 5 Away Draws: 6

Football League Trophy Since 2004:
Home Draws: 2 Away Draws: 8


2004-05 Season:
Home : CC1 : Plymouth (W 3-2)
Home : CC2 : Bolton Wanderers (L 0-2)
Away : LDV1 : Torquay United (L 3-4)
Away : FAC1 : Darlington (D 3-3)
Home : FAC1R : Darlington (W 1-0) (Replay)
Away : FAC2 : Histon (W 3-1)
Away : FAC3 : Rotherham (W 3-0)
Away : FAC4 : Charlton Athletic (L 2-3)

2005-06 Season:
Away : CC1 : Ipswich Town (W 2-0)
Home : CC2 : Millwall (L 1-2)
Away : LDV1 : Leyton Orient (L 0-2)
Away : FAC1 : Macclesfield (D 1-1)
Home : FAC1R : Macclesfield (W 4-0) (Replay)
Away : FAC2 : Walsall (L 0-2)

2006-07 Season:
Away : CC1 : Southampton (L 2-5)
Away : LDV2 : Shrewsbury Town (L 1-2)
Away : FAC1 : Rushden and Diamonds (L 1-3)

2007-08 Season:
Away : CC1 : Hereford (L 1-4)
Home : LDV1 : Shrewsbury (W 1-0)
Away : LDV2 : Hereford (D 0-0 - won on penalties)
Away : LDV3 : Swansea (L 0-1)
Away : FAC1 : Torquay United (L 1-4)

2008-09 Season:
Away : CC1 : Charlton (W 1-0)
Away : CC2 : Middlesbrough (L 1-5)
Away : LDV1 : Brentford (D 2-2 - lost on penalties)
Home : FAC1 : Stockport County (D 1-1)
Away : FAC1R : Stockport County (L 0-5)

2009-10 Season:
Home : CC1 : Norwich City (L 0-4)
Away : JPT1 : AFC Bournemouth (L 1-2)
Away : FAC1 : Oxford United (L 0-1)

2010-11 Season:
Home : CC1 : Crystal Palace (L 0-1)
Home : JPT1 : Exeter City (L 1-3)
Away : FAC1 : Rushden and Diamonds (W 1-0)
Away : FAC2 : Hartlepool United (L 2-4)

2011-12 Season:
Away : CC1 : Exeter City (L 0-2)
Away : JPT2 : AFC Bournemouth (L 2-3)
Away : FAC1 : Hereford United


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