Why do we always play the darkside at goodison first ?

[sportinglesbian2]

always seems to be goodison for the 1st derby game ?

why people why ?

 

[BiggyRat]

Because they are scared to come to Goodison later in the season when its dark.

 

[RFUS]

Take off the tinfoil hate. It's random chance; nothing more.

 

[DualityNSNO]

Take off the tinfoil hate. It's random chance; nothing more.

Hate or hat?

 

[RFUS]

Hate or hat?

Haha. An accidental, but somewhat apt, typo!

 

[DualityNSNO]

Haha. An accidental, but somewhat apt, typo!

Indeed mate, both apply!

 

[The Equaliser]

It's defo a conspiracy - pact with the Devil being invoked.

 

[nesky]

Take off the tinfoil hate. It's random chance; nothing more.

What is it now, 8 years in a row? There is NO WAY that is coincidence. No. Way.

 

[chrissyjack]

It's so when the rs are in the running for the league, it has been decreed that they play at home to make it easier for them to get all the dodgy decisions.

Or am I just talking crap

 

[RFUS]

What is it now, 8 years in a row? There is NO WAY that is coincidence. No. Way.

Yes. It is.

There will be stats in their favour and stats in our favour.

Just the other day I read that in 20 premier league seasons we've played our opening game at home 13 times and they've started at home only 7 times. That's a considerable difference in our favour, but I doubt there are sinister forces at work.

Don't get me wrong, the kopites are jammy and lucky, sometimes to the point of interpretable corruption.

This however is just chance. And there's no massive advantage either way, to be honest.

 

[zero]

They have to play us home and away in the season anyway I'm not sure having the home tie later in the season is an advantage?

 

[andrewkgsmith]

You say it like it's a bad thing, we need an easy win in our inevitable start of the season droughts.

 

[sportinglesbian2]

didn't say it was an advantage or not ,from my memeory it seems to always be at home first and i'm talking the last 30 years or so

 

[Del]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/paulfletcher/2009/06/secrets_of_the_fixture_compute.html

A blog on how the fixtures are sorted out

 

[Del]

Found this from another thread Toffee Dan wrote it

"Everton usually play the first Derby at home because they ask for it that way. Each club is allowed to request certain fixtures at specific times (although they don't always get them) - for example the RS don't want to play at home on or around 15th April - the anniversary of Hillsborough - another example is Forest ask to play away on the weekend of the Nottingham Goose Fair".