Don't blame Reading if Stevenage get juicy fixture

[Maguire]

The sequence that the balls come out is totally independent of the previous day's results. Thus, it is a reasonable assumption that whoever Stevenage got would also have been who we got, as we would have been that same ball.

Nope, because every news report, paper article and so one would have been written differently, read differently, every person would've been in a differently space in a different moment in time and therefore ultimately started the machine at a different time or loaded it at a different time and so on.

In fact i'd say it's a reasonable assumption that if we'd beaten Stevenage we would've drawn someone other than Notts County

[Svlad Cjelli]

The sequence that the balls come out is totally independent of the previous day's results. Thus, it is a reasonable assumption that whoever Stevenage got would also have been who we got, as we would have been that same ball.

Nope, because every news report, paper article and so one would have been written differently, read differently, every person would've been in a differently space in a different moment in time and therefore ultimately started the machine at a different time or loaded it at a different time and so on.

In fact i'd say it's a reasonable assumption that if we'd beaten Stevenage we would've drawn someone other than Notts County

If it helps, they do a rehearsal of the draw about half an hour before the main draw, to check that there are the right number of balls, that everyone knows what they're doing and to check the camera angles, etc.

In that, on Sunday, the teams drawn came out differently, as you'd expect them to do.

[voyager1]

The sequence that the balls come out is totally independent of the previous day's results. Thus, it is a reasonable assumption that whoever Stevenage got would also have been who we got, as we would have been that same ball.

Whilst we would have been the same ball, the sequence of events leading up to the draw would have been altered. The person pulling the ball out of the bag would have put their hand into the bag differently and pulled out in a different order. If you repeat the draw over and over again using the same person, the order they pull the balls out will be different each time.

One of my friends commented on watching the 3rd round draw and how the person dropped a ball and picked up a different one. Had he not dropped the ball then we might have had someone other than Stevenage, or played away to Stevenage.

[M-U-R-T-Y]

Oh my god.

[peterroyal76]

Could this be the worst thread ever?