Hi Nick, just spent a week in hospital after heart attack. Your video's helped take my mind from my immediate problems and away to the beautiful Royal Blue Mersey and rhe equally beautiful Everton Stadium. For that I send you greatful thanks. Ken

@scottwoolner4698

16 күн бұрын

Get well soon mate 👍

@kennethbell1069

16 күн бұрын

Many thanks.

@KevanRCraft

15 күн бұрын

Get better, Ken, best wishes...

@colinc4974

15 күн бұрын

Hope your feeling better mate, best wishes to you

@johnrimmer5955

15 күн бұрын

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

As a mufc fan, excellent video nick good luck toffees for the future we both need it.👏

You have always given your full commitment to this project from day 1 Nick! The powers to be need to recognise the work you have done and invite you for a full stadium tour - you deserve it!!COYB💙

@misterdroneuk

13 күн бұрын

I appreciate that!

I really hope the club give you a tour of this masterpiece, if social media celebrities like stillryan can blag a visit you more than deserve one

@gerryhatrick5601

15 күн бұрын

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.

@TeddyArmitage

15 күн бұрын

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

Superb video Mr Drone and a touching tribute to Michael Jones, you are a top man.

Literally out of LFCs shadow now. Wonderful views, what a wonderful transformation and credit to the city.

There's a lot happening but you can see it's all coming together now. I cannot wait to see the roof finished and the Barrel Cladding going up. Thanks to the person who arranged for the Fridge to be removed. The road looks much better now...

Another cracking video Nick and lovely tribute to Michael . I really like the overhang on the South Stand , never fails to amaze me the progress that’s been made .

R. I. P. Michael🇮🇪🏐

Superbly presented again

Happy birthday michael rip dear fella COYB 😢

I’ve just come down too see it

Thanks for the Full FlyAround, Nick, tremendous 👍

Absolutely fantastic video well done COYB 👏

Do ya think they might have an open day for people to have a look around when it's fully constructed, it would be great if they did

Top work squire - always nice to see the progress. 💙

Started digging by the west stand now

Look forward to all your drone videos of this wonderful new site Nick. Best there are by miles and typical of you also to include the moving tribute to young Mike 👏 💙

Yeah nick like wise I do enjoy you updates on the Everton stadium. Although I do watch other updates yours are somehow a better Quality I think yours are more informative,. Hope we beat Arsenal tomorrow. Fingers crossed.

Brilliant yet again. Lovely views. Echo the comments about Michael, Thanks Nick.

Thx. Say all goodbye to the mini pitch in my opinion it’s living its last weeks 😉

Another great video 😂💙💙💙

As ever, loving the video and the stadium is looking fabulous. Can't wait to visit if we can stay up next season. Intending to come up and buy you that beer to say farewell to goodison.

Looks fabulous doesn't it 💙

A fantastic finishing shot 👏🏻

Thanks Nick, on your weekly vid, could you zoom in on the dock, west stand, it’s where they are digging out.

Brilliant that you capture the surrounding landscape, the docks, the river, the city, which puts the stadium into perspective... Maybe on a sunny day plot the drone over the centre spot and do a full 360° looking outwards for a different perspective? Fantastic footage once again 🙌👍👋

good vid on the upate of the ground thanks lee

Hi Nick great video as always that was a nice tribute for Michael

Hi Nick Wow the east plaza is really coming on well, the barrel cladding is becoming more amazing week by week, i cant wait to see the solar panels being fitted on the South stand. Also its good to see the waterway being dug out, on the west plaza. There is so much going on at the moment it is hard to keep up with the changes, the gates look absolutely stunning and amazingly set into the wall, im really looking forward to seeing it completed

Hey Nick great video as always. They are starting to dig out the dock in front of the West stand. On 9:00 you can see it Cleary in front of the South west corner.

Superb.

Great video nick love seeing the progress of the stadium please keep up the good work mate utft coyb

Great vid. Looks like there's been a lot of progress both inside and outside the stadium. I was wondering if you'd consider getting some footage of the HS2 project, especially in and around Birmingham. I recognise it is a distance from Merseyside but you could get some good shots of viaducts and tunnels getting built etc. After all, it is Europe's biggest infrastructure project. Thanks for the vid and keep up the good work👍

Amazing 🤩UTT🤘🏽💙

Nick brilliant video it's looking amazing, 😊 UTFT... point's against ARSE HOLES would be amazing 😊

If Michael's family felt it appropriate, I really think one stand should be named The Michael Goodison Joned stand. His name stands forward as a representative of all fans of this club past, present and future. The fans are the best thing about our club and this would be an amazing tribute to Michael. RiP.

Great vid.....thanks !

👍👍

Hi Nick, on the back of the West Stand, there's now lots of black panelling, in the gap between the lower floors and the glass.

@davidbadcock2225

14 күн бұрын

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?

@DarrenCowzer-cx7ot

13 күн бұрын

Should say North Stand David

@davidbadcock2225

12 күн бұрын

@@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.

Nick we really need to paint the leaning columns on the south stand royal blue and the steels inside the north stand... Also set up a go fund me page to paint those red cranes up river.. No place on the royal blue mersey for that discussing colour... Nice work again mate.

@DuncTheBlue1878

15 күн бұрын

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 🙄

Hi Mate Great video, as usual We met before the Forest game with Antonio, and at the end of the Sheffield match in the Bullens Road. Have you seen the blue strips on the steps in the upper West Stand? towards the North Stand! Looks great. I hope they continue it around the whole stadium. It will definitely make the stadium a bit more intimidating, a sea of royal blue all around the pitch. See you again soon Peter Roberto

Hi Nick! Always great to watch you videos my friend. Thank you so much for your time!! Are you able to show us where the water will run from point to point on the fan’s plaza please? It might be obvious, but would be good to visualise from the air. I can see the excavation has well and truly started now. Looking so so good!

@DuncTheBlue1878

15 күн бұрын

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 👍🏻

@TeddyArmitage

14 күн бұрын

@@DuncTheBlue1878 Cheers Dunc!!

Hi Nick, great video as always keep up the great work. Could you have a focus on the West Stand ground works, it looks like the water way is being reinstated. Also there has been rail seating installed in the lower South stand, could you get a close up of this too. Thank you

Great video, the stadium looks superb, way better than Tottenham's which doesn't know if its an NFL or football stadium. 😂 All the best. 👍

Could those gaps that exist between the West stand plaza and the stairs be potential windows so that fans can view the coach driving underneath and the players and staff disembarking?

@DuncTheBlue1878

15 күн бұрын

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’ 👍🏻

@davidbadcock2225

14 күн бұрын

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.

What is the old building that has been refurbished by the side of the stadium ?

@DuncTheBlue1878

16 күн бұрын

Hydraulic Tower

@davidbadcock2225

14 күн бұрын

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?

Nick, you may want to zoom in on the South Stand Roof in your midweek. I reckon, at 11:49 mins you can see the patterns of fittings applied to the Standing-seam roof for the Solar Array and JUST about again at 12:14 mins). They don't show up when looking across the West-to-East perspective, only when from the North/South angles.

@davidharrison6310

11 күн бұрын

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!

@davidbadcock2225

11 күн бұрын

@@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.

We all forget that a man sadly lost his life during the construction of the new Everton stadium last year. Just awful. RIP mate ✊

@DuncTheBlue1878

15 күн бұрын

👍🏻💙

Brilliant once again Nick , just one thing that’s bothered me … The three blocks of seats in the lower north stand , the block on the left has a row of seats missing or is this a walkway ? Hopefully mr Babcock can inform us . Thanks Nick

@DuncTheBlue1878

15 күн бұрын

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

@Guesswho-qk2kv

15 күн бұрын

@@DuncTheBlue1878thanks dunc the blue

@davidbadcock2225

14 күн бұрын

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.

@Guesswho-qk2kv

12 күн бұрын

@@davidbadcock2225 thanks David the font of knowledge

Hi mate, I think the blue strips on the steps are led light strips.

Not crashing this drone, Nick?

Are they on amphetamin? Incredible progress

Hi Nick. Great vid as usual. Couple of questions on the Western Terrace. On the vid you did with David Babcock's illustration some time ago I'm sure it showed sky lights in the mezzanine roof, but now that they're actually paving the roof it looks like that won't happen? It also showed that the two angled walls behind the terracing would be brick-faced. Is that not happening now? Regards

@DuncTheBlue1878

16 күн бұрын

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 👍🏻

@davidbadcock2225

14 күн бұрын

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.

@davidbadcock2225

14 күн бұрын

@@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.

Love your videos mate, a question you have maybe been asked 100 times but where are the away fans going to be located

@DuncTheBlue1878

15 күн бұрын

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

@bluemonkey_1878

14 күн бұрын

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.

@DuncTheBlue1878

14 күн бұрын

@@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

Hi Nick, I've been watching your videos since you started the updates.. Love your work. At 8:16 on the video you are paning west stand, the last piece of barrel cladding in the North West corner has a panel that is different from all the rest that have been fitted so far. The final design didn't show any visible pattern, but there is something different going on there. I spotted it a while ago and have been waiting for someone to point it out. Maybe there will be a design in the west stand cladding, can you shed any light on this? Thanks

@neilchurchill6494

16 күн бұрын

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.

@user-bx5js8kd3p

16 күн бұрын

@@neilchurchill6494 Thanks Neil

Hi nick will there be anything resembling everton on the exterior of the stadium? Like a badge or anything like that? Or does it have to remain plain cause of the heritage? Great videos keep it up 🤌🤌

@DuncTheBlue1878

15 күн бұрын

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

@roberttuohy3597

15 күн бұрын

@DuncTheBlue1878 cheers mate 👍

Hi there, non-football or EFC question - where d'ya get yr shirt pls?

Nice fly around wud love.us to win but hard at arsenal they win they win league don't they

@DuncTheBlue1878

16 күн бұрын

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

Any idea when the PV panels will be fitted to the roof?

Hi Nick hope you enjoyed final game season with my season tkts. Question for you next fly round, I noticed barrel cladding on west stand looks like there is a hologram forming at either end in middle.

@barrydowney8771

7 күн бұрын

Baz by the way

What shite dumped the fridge?

Will the ground be open for the start of 24/25 season ?

@davidbadcock2225

12 күн бұрын

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.

Not having drone wars soon. Coyb

Hiya Nick, I'm a Newcastle fan and have been for 30 years, I still watch your vlogs on Bramley Moore Dock, is the new stadium simply going to called Bramley Moore Dock stadium or are Everton going to call it something else? I've only been to Everton once that was the F.A Cup quarter final between Everton and Newcastle, Dave Watson scored the only goal, and Everton went on to win the 1995 F.A Cup, I hope the first game at Bramley Moore is against Liverpool that'll be something, this is Choppy in Whitehaven, Cumbria, England

@davidbadcock2225

12 күн бұрын

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.

When will it actually be finished? Seems a year is a long wait. I guess they’ll do quite a few test events early 2025.

@DuncTheBlue1878

16 күн бұрын

Probably December

👍🏻

2 things this week…. do you think the ‘streaks’ on the roof will disappear over time? That west stand and south stand roof look almost like reject material compared to the north stand. Secondly, there is nothing that promotes that this is the home of Everton. No large badge or letters on seats,glass or exterior walls. I know heritage and the council wishes stopped this, but it’s a damn shame. I hope they figure a way around this. Projections maybe? Switch them off when the inspectors turn up and plead ignorance.😂

@davidbadcock2225

14 күн бұрын

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."

@Captainkraken75

13 күн бұрын

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

As a tractor boy, I fear we may never get to play in this stadium . 🚜 🚜 🚜

@garypring2658

16 күн бұрын

there is always the cup if not the league

@johncodling9805

16 күн бұрын

Keep the faith.

@06skippy06

16 күн бұрын

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 😃

Just thinking with what happened at Hillsborough, Dan Mei's must have thought about entries and exits in his plans, but there only seems like from your videos, is it three exits out on to the Dock Road?

@dan003

16 күн бұрын

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

@harryharrison3333

16 күн бұрын

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.

@johncodling9805

16 күн бұрын

But NO fences strong enough to stop a tank.

@Colin-wx7kz

16 күн бұрын

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

@ianphillips9455

16 күн бұрын

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.

Great content as ever, Just wondering on the south stand lower tier, with the gradient of the stand being greater, is this going to cause an obscured pitch view in the upper most corners of the lower tiers on the east and west stand ?

@DuncTheBlue1878

16 күн бұрын

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

@liamdrew4828

15 күн бұрын

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

@davidbadcock2225

14 күн бұрын

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

I got told from one of my friends that has said the stadium is going to be delayed for the 2025/26 season. Can you please confirm if that is true or not true. Thanks

@DuncTheBlue1878

16 күн бұрын

Untrue

@antonybaines4230

16 күн бұрын

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

@CTJ893

16 күн бұрын

No

@davidbadcock2225

14 күн бұрын

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?

@antonybaines4230

14 күн бұрын

@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.

Hi Nick, thanks for chatting to me outside the ground before the derby. First time question here: Do you know, or anyone on here, if they will finish the East Stand Barrell Cladding (once they finished that small section by the South on the West) Barrell Cladding or continue to do it in small sections?

@davidbadcock2225

14 күн бұрын

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.

@GordRB

12 күн бұрын

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

How on earth have we afforded this think the price is up to near on 1 bill for the build , is it true they have ran out of funding, i cant enjoy this build with so much uncertainties with way club is run, also herd that it wont be owend by everton fc them selves and only small amount will go back into club

@DuncTheBlue1878

15 күн бұрын

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.

@davidbadcock2225

14 күн бұрын

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.

pitch is a bit small isnt it

Thanks Harry, just worried if an emergency, we would all be able to get out

@davidbadcock2225

12 күн бұрын

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?

Its looking great Nick cheers.. Just hope that shiny new barrel roof cladding will stand the test of time as the salt encrusted wind and the South westerly gales that will batter it year after year. Hope the architect has tested his materials, there was a reason our forefathers built in brick and stone on the water front..

@davidbadcock2225

14 күн бұрын

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.

Neverton 😂 the club that keeps on giving 😂... build a stadium with a loan, then have to sell the stadium to stop bankrupcy, without playing a game in the shitehouse

Greetings from Georgia, still raining cats and dogs here, and there is fresh snow on the mountains on the 17th. Nick, I see that the seats on the East stand are still across the access stairway is this just a cock up? or am I missing something?

@misterdroneuk

16 күн бұрын

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

@davidbadcock2225

14 күн бұрын

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.