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Goals Soccer Centre - World Cup fever coming up (GOAL)     

R88AVE - 11 Mar 2006 22:09

This company is the next 5-a-side generation which are generally located in urban areas of the country. At the moment there a only few centres opened throughout the UK, however it is growing. I think they are proposing to build 7 new centres in year 2007 and 5 centres this year alone.
I believe GOAL will be a potential bagger in terms of cash it will generate. I myself play at one of these centres at least twice a month. It costs about 60 to hire a pitch for one hour. It may sound alot but when divide by 10 players its 5.00 its good value and you get fit as well! At my centre there are 20 pitches at my local centre.thats already 1200 in one hour!! The good thing about these centres is that they are open virtually all year round 7 days a week. So cash generated is going to be considerable as it open more centres.The cost of maintenance is next to nothing, just simple and easy things are used nothing fancy or complicated like you see at the fitness centres. The number of staff at my centres are only small so company expenditure must be low as well.
Last Monday 6 March 2006 they announced their impressive results and is continuing to grow and already started paying dividends. They have announced new deal with Umbro for sponsorship.
As you know us Brits love football and now that there is World Cup coming up god knows what cup fever will bring to us...Play football of course!
I think the share price have the potential to grow considerably in the coming months and after the World cup

R88AVE - 16 Mar 2006 17:47 - 4 of 107

I think you may have just missed the boat ...I got in on 7 March at 199p and sold it yesterday at 245p. However I am eyeing on it again and see if the price will bottom out and then jump in again.

Click on this for more info, dont know if you already know about these?

http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/q?d=v1&p=&q=q&s=goal&m=L
go to headlines some interesting reads.

What do you reckon?

captainmerton - 17 Mar 2006 18:50 - 5 of 107

I thought about these but had concerns.

1. The cost of acquiring these huge plots of land to build the centres on cant be cheap and although 60 a pitch per hour may seem a lot it probably aint that much is you put it up against the cost of servicing the debt on the initial outlay to acquire and build the centre. What I'm saying is I wonder how their return on investment compares to say an Asda or Tesco on the same site.

2. Fives is a booming industry and continues to grow but having played at various centres they all seem to be completely dead midweek during the day and on sundays (in my experience). They need to find a way to fill these periods.

Just some thoughts. Although feel free to treat them as utter drivel. I will watch this company with interest and good luck to anyone investing.

R88AVE - 19 Mar 2006 12:47 - 6 of 107

Fair points on your concerns...
My local soccer centre was originally a driving range with a golf course where there was already a building facility in placed. So I think in this was a question of tidying the place up really. They have kept a golf course open as well, to generate any extra cash from golfers.

I reckon the bosses are clever in picking out the sites which are not necessarily new plot of land for their new centres, like they did to my local however I don't know how they have approached with the new and existing sites but obviously they are must be doing something right, otherwise they wouldn't be making any profits!

captainmerton - 20 Mar 2006 17:48 - 7 of 107

Any idea where I can get a copy of their annual report? Dont appear to have it on Hemscott.

R88AVE - 20 Mar 2006 21:22 - 8 of 107

TRY THIS LINK IF ITS ANY HELP

http://www.goalsplc.co.uk/goals/investors/pdfs/Prelims2005pres.pdf

KEAYDIAN - 17 Apr 2006 15:37 - 9 of 107

Update - The Sunday Telegraph says buy Goals Soccer Centres at 229p

fliper - 26 May 2006 15:22 - 10 of 107

Will the world cup help this share ?

fliper - 10 Aug 2006 14:26 - 11 of 107

As the start of the football season kicks off , these shares should gain like last season .

fliper - 16 Sep 2006 19:20 - 12 of 107

Results out on monday , should score well !

Juzzle - 18 Sep 2006 08:38 - 13 of 107

* Sales up 35%

* EBITDA* up 56%

* EBITA* up 59%

* Profit before tax up 72%

* Basic Earnings per share up 70%

* Strong financial performance driven by like for like sales growth of
5% and new openings

* Maiden interim ordinary dividend of 0.3p per share (goes XD on 27/9)


"..and look forward to the remainder of 2006 and
beyond with confidence and enthusiasm..."

R88AVE - 28 Sep 2006 13:22 - 14 of 107

I must these are impressive results.
The shares have been virtually static a long while but I can see it picking up momentum soon. (IMO)

fliper - 28 Sep 2006 17:40 - 15 of 107

6 more centres to open in the next 12 months . The sp is moving in the right direction , 3 before xmas ?

R88AVE - 28 Sep 2006 20:29 - 16 of 107

I think it will be more before xmas. After last result back in Mar 06 I think, I got in at 199p and nothing much happened for about two weeks and then sudden bounce and managed to sell at 245p mark before it dropped a little.
If I were you I would watch the number shares traded being traded on daily basis I noticed at the time I bought some the number of shares traded was increasing daily hence caused the sudden bounce.

I feel this company has plenty potential to grow, as I said before the brits just love playing football. It will never disappear

Unfortunately I am bit tied up with spare cash otherwise I would have long at 255p the results are showing good steady growth yearly.

I reckon it could rise as much to 350p by xmas IMO!

fliper - 29 Sep 2006 18:16 - 17 of 107

Yes , I would like to get more of these . Got my eye on other shares that could move faster .

R88AVE - 03 Oct 2006 17:23 - 18 of 107

Interesting volume for goal, I think its on the verge of a breakout?
With one big buys 710k shares @ 270.54p....mmm wonder what they are upto?

R88AVE - 03 Oct 2006 20:35 - 19 of 107

Just seen 1m buy of shares and load more. Very big volume by Goal standards. Have I missed the boat or shall jump on tomorrow am???

fliper - 03 Oct 2006 21:00 - 20 of 107

Yes your right , big movement soon i feel .

R88AVE - 04 Oct 2006 07:34 - 21 of 107

Fliper, just noticed Goal is in ex-div period will it make any difference? How long is the period normally?

R88AVE - 04 Oct 2006 13:06 - 22 of 107

Director sold 1m shares yesterday at 270p which was shown as buy on moneyam!
However he and partners are now interested in 4m plus shares which will represent 9.7% of the company.

fliper - 05 Oct 2006 18:50 - 23 of 107

Yes , but is he going to use that 2.7 mil to pay for more centres ?
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