Get well soon mate 👍

Many thanks.

Get better, Ken, best wishes...

Hope your feeling better mate, best wishes to you

Hi Ken. I was in hospital last September after a major operation and likewise Nicks updates kept my sprits up, even when Klop and all his 1st team walked the corridors passed the room I was in. Apparently doing some charity work whilst I was watching an update. Keep your sprits up Ken and remember you have the mighty blue army behind you. COYB

I appreciate that!

Dead right 👍 and I’m sure Nick has done plenty to draw in more wordwide exposure about Everton through his videos. Wish the Club would recognize this.

100% agree on this! Conducted yourself so well Nick during the whole process 👏🏼

Search ‘stadium db final Everton design’ and scroll down to the high definition images (‘renderings’) from August 2020 and you’ll see the proposed water channel 👍🏻

@@DuncTheBlue1878 Cheers Dunc!!

Not allowed to paint the pillars blue, unfortunately. I agree about painting the Liverpool 2 Port cranes blue 😆 but they have to be red for health & safety 🙄

Darren: any chance you could be a bit more specific with a timestamp and then accompany that with focused reference points to explain your observation, please?

Should say North Stand David

@@DarrenCowzer-cx7ot Darren: ah, Ok. To be pedantic, actually the wall-backing panels are Dark Grey, exactly the same as walls of the Mansard Roof structures on the East and West Stands. You will find the same will be done to the similar structures on the South Stand. And what's more, if the images on the plans are brought to fruition, the concrete rooves will all get a final coating of dark-grey paint to match and blend it in.

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Those gaps will be filled in and brick cladding will be installed to both external wing walls to match the stadium. The team bus won’t be driving into the ‘tunnel’ 👍🏻

Lee: have you still not received my long reply to this Q that you have repeatedly asked and which I have attempted, I think, three times? If not, I don't understand why YT keeps deleting it. I concur with Dunc on the Team Coach issue. Only emergency vehicles will have access when necessary under the mezzanine. The team coach MAY just poke its nose under the north end of the mezzanine when the weather is poor so that the players and staff get off under cover and then reverse out to park up elsewhere but they will then have to walk half the length of the under-mezzanine. They could also do that from the Front of House 'garage' but that's a lot lot less likely. The vast majority of times the team coaches will stop in front of the central tunnel through the terracing and the staff/players pass directly through that and the main West Stand Portal to their facilities on the ground floor of the West Stand.

Hi David! Can I just thank you for the great contribution you have made to the success of this channel! Your input/insight should along with Nic and Paul Frost be recognised by the club - you all deserve the chance of a grand tour!

@@davidharrison6310 David: thank you very much for your kind words. Unfortunately it's never going to happen for the droners, never mind the likes of me, even though I'd love to get in there and examine everything. EFC will be totally unaware of any of us, closeted off with LoR and only with their 'preferred' sub-contractors. Quite frankly, with all of the other off-the-field matters I'd be alarmed if the relative few left at the helm were not keeping their eyes on the essential matters rather than the frivolous.

The final approved plans from August 2020 have large stone blocks for fans to sit on and admire the view - they weren’t skylights. Yes, both external concrete wing walls will be covered in brick cladding to match the stadium 👍🏻

Wardie: that is absolutely correct. 1) In the settled September, 2020 plans there WERE skylights planned for the mezzanine, surrounded by Glass rails. At what stage and why they changed those is not known (to me, anyway), with it only being noticed when the concrete planking was laid on the steels. You can see the skylights and glass barrier rails on the designs for the West Concourse and in the imagery passed by the Planning Officers in documents from September 2020. 2) As per the point made above, we can't know IF plans have changed under the radar but I feel sure that they haven't changed the plans to brick-face the diagonal, side-cheek terracing support walls. It absolutely needs that contrast within the terracing to reflect and blend in the theme of the stadium West Stand facade behind.

@@DuncTheBlue1878 Dunc: good day to you. I beg to differ about the skylights. They can be seen clearly in the final approved designs and imagery of September, 2020. Have another big zoom-in of pp7 in "Officer Report Final Appendix 11- Stadium Images", which I know you have, as you pointed something out to me from that document.

That row will have seats, according to the final approved plans. No idea why they’ve left it.

@@DuncTheBlue1878thanks dunc the blue

I can only reiterate exactly what Dunc has sent you. There are a few places around the bowl where they have omitted seats temporarily and it'll be only due to some schedule issue, like the're needing to have access there for something above, or for space to install something. There is no obvious clue for any of that at that particular space at this moment in time to us but I don't doubt it will have been planned in the schedule for a reason know only by LoR. There are always surprises in store so I can't rule out anything, e.g. they changed the East Stand Hospitality seating section, thus needing a non-symmetrical application and the addition of three sets of seats across the stairways about half way up the lower tier. That decision seems nuts but I am sure it will have some good, less-than-obvious reason.

@@davidbadcock2225 thanks David the font of knowledge

Been mentioned before in another video. There are exhausts pipies at those spots, it is to allow heat to escape. If you look at video just after youll see "ladder" looking steel work. Top of each of those, are the exhaust vents, so the same type of cladding will be used there too.

@@neilchurchill6494 Thanks Neil

In the north east corner, lower tier. For cup games, the upper north east tier can be occupied by away fans too

Do we have any idea what they're planning to do with the smaller away allocations? Can't work out from the entrances/exits how they're gonna split the standard allocation.

@@bluemonkey_1878 Smaller away allocations will be in the lower tier of the north east corner, where they’re about to install the rail seating

Hydraulic Tower

Wolfman: They are the "Pump House" and "Hydraulic Tower". If you want to know more, then perhaps use those two names in your Internet Browser (and "Bramley Moore Dock") if you want to learn more?

Baz by the way

Not if City win. I predict an EFC defeat, unfortunately

There won’t be the club’s badge or ‘Everton’ on the stadium (removed from the plans following requests from the council and Historic England). However, there will be blue EFC banners in the fan zone and below the north and south stands outside the stadium

@DuncTheBlue1878 cheers mate 👍

No. Every seat in the stadium will have an unobstructed view of the pitch.

Fair enough, already knew this had been said but the angles just looked like the opposite corner would be obscured, cheers for confirming

@@liamdrew4828 Liam: no unobstructed view of the PITCH, which is not the same as no unobstructed view of the whole BOWL.

Paul: at the moment it's just called New Everton Stadium but the club have commissioned a USA firm to undertake the Naming Rights project, so we will have to wait and see how that develops.

David: I think this comment of yours has not ended up where you thought it was, answering 'Harry'. You may want to copy-and-delete it?

Freddie: No. Completion date is due to be Dec 2024 unless updated and EFC have elected not to move mid-season and wait until the start of the 2025-2026 season for football matches.

Probably December

You're forgetting that there is absolutely loads of room directly outside of the stadium too.

There are six entry / exit points and all though I think there could of been more, this is completely different as one was people pushing into a enclosed space with no other exit, and this is exit/entries between two open areas.

But NO fences strong enough to stop a tank.

The stadium wouldn't have been approved without enough exits for the fans, so don't worry about it.

People seem to forget that Hillsborough happened because people where entering a already full area and that no one could move because of fencing, where as at BMD how many thousands would fit on the "Fan Plaza" while also being able to see 360 degrees at what is going on around them unlike at Hillsborough where people where entering through a tunnel.

there is always the cup if not the league

Keep the faith.

Not sure why you would say that when you have just been promoted to the Prem. If we both get relegated next season, Ipswich could be our first ever home game in the new stadium. Or, ideally, we both stay up. Easy 😃

Gord: It's clear that they now have 2 teams working on the barrel-cladding simultaneously, with the 2 "under-the-hook" jigs for the cranes being the most significant unique item. This means that question of what the speed and order will be is rendered pretty trite. Apart from some potential below-the-barrel-cladding lifts contractors'access requirements there shouldn't be anything stopping the crew on the SW continuing along the West Stand. Likewise the crew on the SE will move northwards up to the expansion gap (where you can see the 2 small twinned steels) and will then be bale to do the East Stand section WHEN the Standing-seam roof has been completed on the East Stand.

@@davidbadcock2225 great stuff thanks, I thought if anyone would know it would be you. 👍👍

Captain: re the Standing Seam Roof material , this is a copy of my comment, last used about 8 days ago. . . . "I'm going to write the short answer here as I've written a longer version numerous times in the last month or so in relation to the difference in colour-toning of the Standing-seam roof: The Standing-seam roof material is naturally-anodised aluminium. What that means is that it's manufactured aluminium that is allowed to react with whatever, naturally. In simple terms aluminium will adsorb oxygen from the air to produce a layer of Aluminium Oxide (Al2 O3) on the surface, which has a slightly different colour and opacity to pure aluminium. When it's produced in sheets they're rolled up in reels, which means that the surface is not exposed to air, and the reels are produced at different times, meaning the Aluminium has had different lengths of time for exposure. Therefore, over time, it will all naturally even out to be the same colour and degree of 'matt' finish. Because that will happen, it's NOT actually of significant importance to keep all the same aged reels adjacent to each other. It's only droners who will capture that differential just now but it'll merge before the stadium is used, even though no one will be any the wiser on the ground or using the stadium. I hope that satisfies your curiosity."

@@davidbadcock2225 thank you David. A well informed answer that I appreciate. I look forward to the colour levelling out.

Untrue

@DuncTheBlue1878 thanks mate. I'll get him told next time when I see him.

No

Antony: this is what comes about if people don't concentrate hard on the wording of any 'news releases' and it can't be clear as to whether either you or your friend have stated or misheard any of the detail. LoR expect to complete the Stadium by Dec 2024. That may be dependent on HSE and Authority requirements on trial tests being completed too. However, EFC have decided not to use the stadium for football mid-season so GP will be used for all of the next EPL season. EFC will only start using the stadium for football matches at the start of the 2025-2026 season. Clearer?

@davidbadcock2225 yeah definitely know now. Because according to my mate he's a United fan he said the stadium is delayed. I feel like telling him to concentrate on your stadium roof. All I was asking is for honest answer's from all Everton fans and of course from Mister Drone.

Worrying times. £800m is the latest estimate. We’ll have to wait and see what happens with the takeover now that 777 seem very unlikely to meet the PL’s conditions.

Colin: you're not wrong to be worried. The stadium will get completed as it's a huge asset. But who finances it and how is still very much in question, and that also has consequences on longer-term ownership of the stadium. In financial terms EFC is a liability as it stands, without BMD, and would need severe business-troubleshooting, whereas the stadium is a huge asset, capable of producing excellent financial returns. Without BMD one would have to question what EFC would be worth to any potential investor. So, it's crucial the stadium remains an EFC asset, which is less than certain, at this point in time. There WILL be a queue of shrewd investors interested in acquiring the stadium, whether part of EFC or not.

Tony: being anodised aluminium, the barrel-cladding should stand the test of time, as a protection material lamina is the final addition. Having said that, as it's formed from sections, it wouldn't be TOO difficult to replace any that fall short over the test of time.

Hi John, they are supposed to be there and are staying 👍🏻

John: it wasn't in the passed plans but clearly there has been some significant factor that has caused them to change the plan for the East Stand Hospitality seating. The original symmetrical rectangle has been made less deep but wider, meaning it's now stretched further southwards, so the seats across the aisles is a compromise 'wall' to signify the bottom of the new shallower bottom-edge of the area, if that makes sense. Let me know if it's not clear and I'll try to do a more-specific comparison of plan and post-plan changes with timestamps and more specific reference points.