BMD construction continues apace into year's end

Exciting times. Massive milestone in the history of our club.

All well and good, but has anyone actually been spotted with a spade yet?

Imagine using a spade for 480,000 cubic metres of sand Kevin.

3-4 years of pictures of the water-filled dock. Now this. Exciting.

Who's paying for this? Did we ever secure financing or is the club paying for the foundations and then seeking financing for the actual stadium build?

Massive *millstone*

Nicely played John.

Here's the smoke and mirrors to redirect from the real issues at board level 🙄

Just keep building boys, I don't mind waiting and sitting in it watching a match until they tell us who paid for it.

Well, I'm delighted to see the stadium start to appear out of the ground, always a cause for celebration in any construction project. Congratulations are in order to those who have brought it about.

I have no idea how this is going to pan out financially, whether it will cripple the club or prove to be a catalyst for a successful future. But it's better than going to Kirkby, and it's better than watching our beloved Goodison Park slowly fall into ruin. It's exciting, it's historic.

I'm going to watch the development with great interest and hope to see a few matches there, although I've promised my ticket for the first game to my grandson.

Billy (9), I'll tell you paid for it Billy: The Goose that laid the Golden Egg, but hopefully he will get everything back that he paid for because he will have deserved it and Everton will have become a successful club again.

Nice one Dave 11,maybe that goose can lay us another golden vision while he's at it.

Billy (12), now wouldn't that be a treat, along with three or four more blasts from the past!!

The RS will be worried sick about what has happened to all the great crested newts they kept spotting at BMD not so long ago.

Maybe we can put their minds at ease by telling them they have been rehoused behind that Victorian dock wall that English Heritage treasured so much?

Dave@11, if he can lay an egg the size of his bullshit, we will have all our money problems sorted for the new stadium, the other half of the liver buildings bought, and still have a transfer budget bigger than City.

The most expensive part is up to ground level. So the money is coming from somewhere.
Good to see.

Interesting Jerome, just like it will be interesting watching those twenty metre piles, getting smashed so far into the sand, to help create the base for our wonderful new stadium!

Moshiri is personally funding the initial preparity work with £50m and Liverpool City Region is chipping in with £15m (thanks all you RS council tax payers!).
When that work is complete (it more or less is) the club hope to put funding into place to build the actual stadium.
Here's hoping it all goes to plan!!!

'A spade in the ground' is a RS quote of their former owners Higgs and Gillette. Not appropriate to appear here !

Bill #18

The actual build of the stadium will be clear cut to fund. It is the actual fitting out and the finishing work where the real add-on costs are normally.

Tony #17

All we need now is Rafa to turn the corner into the New Year. A lot didn't give him a chance of getting that far.

There are several YouTube channels showing regularly updated drone footage of the progress. The filling in of the dock is pretty staggering to my untutored eye.
No spades in sight, but several substantial bits of earth moving machinery, and a 50 foot piledriver can be seen - does that count?

Paul # 21.

Any space is better than the hammer and nails needed to knock together the flat pack from IKEA to make another loft extension at Anfield? Or are they using screws and a Phillips screwdriver? 😁😁😁

Tony #3, might need at least 2 spades I reckon

Rob #22. They're probably using one of those horrible little Allen keys!

Rob, I've read it's KFC Construction (UK) have won the contract.

Tony, Neil, I'll raise you Two spades and a wobbly wheelbarrow.

The football will be played where the column is; and the concrete walls are there, so the fans don't have to witness it!!

Whilst there is nothing new to learn for Evertonians from Joe Strange's piece on the new Everton stadium, it is good to see a national news outlet writing about the progress made so far.

New Stadium

Barry - Thank for the link.

So, if no unforeseen difficulties arise (fingers crossed), the 2,500 pilings will be in by June/July? And installing, "the stadium's steel and concrete sub-structure." will begin.

Exciting times.

Mike 14

I think we packed all the Great Crested Newts off on a cruise on the ‘small ships'.

And to think some on TW, said it would never happen ?

Drew, funnily enough I got a Xmas Card from the Great Crested Ones they were having a wonderful time, in fact they said " they were as pissed as Newts ". :-)

Will Rafa lead us into the new stadium... somehow I don't think so...

I hope that one day a ex blue will mange and bring back the glory days. My choice would be Rooney Tim Cahill and big Dunc...

Really impressive drone video of BMD progress month by month:

New Everton stadium footage perfectly shows incredible progress at Bramley-Moore Dock

Steady progress but I don't know what's taking them so long. Reminds me of the groundwork I had to do in order to build a small shed in my back garden. Instead of having to relocate fish, I had to relocate (massacre) a family of rats, but it was all done in the space of a bank holiday weekend. They're all slackers McFly!!!

Does anyone know what type of sea life was relocated from the Dock? And I don't mean Dunlop Trout etc.

Alan, good call. As an angler, I'd be interested to see or hear of the species extracted and returned to the sea.

The fishing so far this winter hasn't been that good on the Mersey compared to recent winters.

I know there have been many who associate release of stadium updates as a deflection, but when I see articles like those posted in the links, it makes it real. It makes me genuinely hopeful for the future. That, despite the past 30 years and the current situation, the club is finally heading in the right direction long term. Our day(s) are coming, starting in May 2022.

When I look at the images, I still love the way the architect has captured modernism but incorporated the City's dockland heritage and seemingly used the site to that advantage. It's going to be stunning.

Built on a Dock filled with sand. Maybe that's going to add to the effect as the Stadium could literally be swaying and rocking on a good day!! Best we get our sea legs ready and maybe some traditional sea shantys adapted into Everton songs!!!

I guess we have a history of filling in docks and "pools" to build the City and it's landmarks. Wasn't the Pier Head, the site of our new club HQ that will look over BMD built on a disused dock? Over to the more wise historians amongst us to confirm that as fact or urban myth.

I'd still love to see a monorail implemented along the river front connecting Brunswick & Sandhills stations with stops along the way as part of the transport infrastructure. Again, modern, but a reflection of the Docker's Umbrella.

Alan (34) - Does anyone know what type of sea life was relocated from the Dock?

Had-dock!

Don't tell me Gerry...you're here all week!

Couldn't resist - Have a great New Year, Alan...:)

Danny # 36 - we've already got a seafaring folksong (okay, it's not a shanty)...

Johnny Todd (Z-Cars)

Well said, Paul! (40),

Johnny Todd he took a notion, for to cross the Liverpool sea...

Whisper it quietly, but wasn't one of the composers of the modern version of Johnny Todd (the Z Cars theme tune adopted by Everton) an Austrian who ended up in Liverpool and had a season ticket at you know where??

Heard a rumour Danny that Hitler had family connections in Liverpool, so you could be onto something there, all adds up when you think that bombs hit the Gwladys street and one just outside the Park end, but none on Anfield.

No wonder the Evertonians sang the song to the bridge on the river Kwai, about only having one ball.

I believe his great great grand son, was no other than the Kop badge man.

Maybe he is using Hitlers old season ticket.

Jerome #16, do you have a breakdown of the various elemental costs of the stadium that you are referring to? Because I'd be very surprised if the major cost was the substructures.

A new piece in the red echo about BMD. Apparently there are thousands of structural elements manufactured and stored off site waiting to be delivered to BMD. Hope Brent has got his pedalo in ship shape condition. Brent is now taking bookings for anyone who lives in the south end of the city, as he will be doing transports to BMD from Garston docks!!

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/everton-new-stadium-bramley-moore-22615637

Rob, I traded up to a four-seater over xmas. Now need to test it's sea-worthiness and reapply for my captain's ticket.

I believe his nephew (a few times removed) through a half brother who ended up in Toxteth Brian. I haven't looked it up but it's covered on one of the historical documentaries you can look up on Netflix or Amazon (can't remember which one).

BMD is "the biggest and most complex" project Colin Chong has been involved in during 40 years of construction?

What was he doing before??

@ Tom Hughes

Any comments on the new Inter & AC shared stadium? I thought they had decided sharing was no longer an option?

The Cathedral

And what's wrong with the San Siro that they feel the need to move? Albeit only 100 metres away!