Hi David, your comments were on my video from Sunday 🤷‍♂️

Great comment re flood lighting David

@@misterdroneuk Hi, Nick, yes, indeed they were but not for the first time. I commented about them before all of you went on the tour, so pointed them out multiple times on a few channels. It even prompted me to send a private comment elsewhere with screenshot photos (as you have been super busy). All good now that you have picked up on it. All the best.

aq I'd agree that it looks like the mitred Polycarbonate corner Expansion Gaps have been attended to. Deserves a closer look.

@@jurgenvoogt1638 I think he is Dan Meis in disguise

@@stephenlinden-wyatt-ys8vy who is Dan Meis? 😅

@@jurgenvoogt1638 just some talentless guy from America 😉😝

@@jurgenvoogt1638 ; the stadium architect.

@@williamwatson228 really?

Ohhh is it. I missed it

Good spot Lad 🙌

Jaden Philogene has chosen Ipswich instead of EFC 🤯 The club should offer transfer targets a tour of BMD - they’d sign there and then.

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@davidbadcock2225 david and the bad cocks!! 🤣🤣

@@cjgsicknote Nevermind the Badcocks

Not a mistake, part of the design. The air exhaust vents are placed over extractor fans from hospitality/kitchens. There did appear to be an extractor fan where they haven’t installed an air exhaust vent, which was surprising. Does look odd.

Yeah, the air exhaust vents look odd on the east side but that’s the design

@@DuncTheBlue1878 it must be getting EXHAUSTING repeating the same stuff over and over.

@@timhh6642 😆 Nah, I don’t mind providing (what I think) are the correct answers to other Blues

I asked this a few weeks ago. Being left as the are now. Dont know why they cant recycle the seats from Goodison after closure and fit some here.🤔🤔

They’re air exhaust vents. The number and location of each is linked to the extractor fans under the cladding from hospitality/kitchens. The west (main stand) has more extractor fans from e.g. more kitchens, so has more air exhaust vents compared to the east.

@@DuncTheBlue1878 Interesting. Thanks very much.

Capacity increase to 62,000 depends on the government changing the law on safe standing (3 fans for 2 rail seats). Highly unlikely, unfortunately.

No finishing spray required. The change in colour is down to oxidisation of the aluminium. In time, it’ll all look the same.

@@DuncTheBlue1878 cheers mate.

It’ll be one of the later jobs, I think

@@DuncTheBlue1878 good stuff mate! Just clarifying its deffo happening 🙌🏼

Those ‘gaps’ are for wheelchair users

@@DuncTheBlue1878 This will upset a few. That terrace should have gone to ground level with seats and safe standing. In fact, I cannot understand why there is no safe standing in the upper tier if they want to create a wall for the home end. Also, why is there no safe standing option on the North lower part of the stand?

@@Tinhead777 Yeah, you’re right, it will upset a few. However, wheelchair users have every right to be at pitch level in the home end. Apparently, as part of the club’s many fan surveys, they calculated the number who want to stand throughout the entire game. This is why they decided to have the upper tier of the south stand and the entire north stand as standard seating, rather than rail seating. North east corner lower tier will have rail seating for the away fans (you probably know this).

@@DuncTheBlue1878 Is that a legal right? People have a right to easy access to designated areas of the stadium. There are also optimum viewing areas that should be selected and have been, but the home end will offer a lesser viewing experience. The home end should have been a solid wall of Blue, hostile and yet passionate; I have a sense that the opposition players taking corners are getting a free ride. Stats do not tell the whole story. However, there is no reason why those areas could not have been accommodated for safe standing and essentially future-proofing the stadium; it can be done in the future, at least, I hope so. This is my opinion concerning the home end of the stadium; I have chronic conditions that may ensure I can never visit the new stadium. Also, those areas would be the best option for me, so yer, having spent my time in the Street End, especially in the late 1970s/80s when we stood on the terraces, I would want the experience, but I am disappointed the South Stand is not what was promised.

They’re air exhaust vents. The number depends on how many extractor fans there are (from e.g. kitchens) under the barrel cladding.

Those gates will be open the vast majority of time

He walked through the players’ tunnel under the west stand but not the tunnel under the west plaza terrace

@@DuncTheBlue1878 At 4:45 on the improved sound version, I suspect he comes out of the West stand past some turnstiles and into the terrace tunnel.

@@maccgordon8310 Yep, looks like he did 👍🏻 Apologies, hadn’t noticed that.

I think you’re right 👍🏻

The club haven’t announced their plans yet

@@DuncTheBlue1878 Nice thanks

Personally, I think the club made a big mistake not opting for 60,000 when you consider there are 34,000 Blues now on the season ticket waiting list. Apparently, the club commissioned a ‘specialist’ consultant to investigate the optimum capacity and the conclusion was around 50,000. There was a fear about empty seats. They massively under-estimated the fan base, unfortunately. I can’t see the government changing the law on safe standing.

I thought the site and size governed the size and if they wanted more seats it couldn't have been at BMD

Under the west stand mezzanine

Two options for the team bus: on calm, sunny days the bus will drop the players off at the front of the west plaza terrace, between the steps and the water channel (middle entrance). On bad weather days, the bus will stop at the northern entrance to the tunnel under the west plaza terrace (close to the north west corner of the stadium).

My understanding from previous video comments is that the team buses will travel under the North stand overhang. This looks narrow from the drone footage but there's enough room for a 2 m wide personal pathway adjacent to the south stand and a 5 m wide vehicle pathway. For comparison, Queensway tunnel lanes are 9 feet wide (2.7 m). Kingsway tunnel lanes are 12 feet wide (3.6 m).

Black (or dark grey) sealant will cover the beige, eventually

Last December, the club said “The social value of Everton Stadium is another impressive aspect of the project. As we enter the final year of the build, figures show that 69 per cent of the workforce are from the locally defined area, with over 100 apprentices now working on, or contributing towards the stadium.” Unsure what % of local companies.

@@DuncTheBlue1878 Thanks Dunc. It was just one of them questions at the back of my mined. You see these project start off with the best intentions and slowly drift away from the original proposal due to program issues etc. Thanks again.

What?

Car parking will be very limited, but it’s not particularly great at Goodison either. There will inevitably be new car parks emerging before the first game next year, but the club hope that fans will use the train to Sandhills, the new bus routes or walk to the ground.

Haha and every Kopshite would be supporting Everton. One club city like Newcstle

👍🏻 I reckon the vast majority of LFC fans have no idea, especially the ones in London, Essex and Hertfordshire

@@DuncTheBlue1878 I'm from London and even I know that Everton were the first team to play at anfield but unlike the LFC ones I'm a Arsenal fan with a soft spot for Everton like my late grandmother

@@terryscrewloosesings 👍🏻 The fans that support a PL club 200+ miles from where they’re from are usually clueless. I bet the LFC fans in the south east don’t know about the horrific Heysel disaster.

@@DuncTheBlue1878 probably not but cause I was a kid at the time I remember it vividly as I do the Hillsborough one I also remember the 1988 match QPR Vs Liverpool when Liverpool got beat by QPR 3-2 I cheered every goal against Liverpool 👍