Saigon Vs Hanoi Swans

Saigon Vs Hanoi is just another week away. It’s on Saturday 21 April, 10.30am at RMIT. It’s on at 10.30am to beat the heat and finish in time for the start of the Big Day Out at 2pm – and to test those who didn’t sleep the night before.

Saigon Saints/Geckos/Wannabes/Whatever

Phil Crouch has promised to polish his footy boots tomorrow and bring along Brendan and Chris (Danny, the ANZ can smell a banking vacuum in the Saigon footy club. You might be well advised to make the big comeback for the sake of CBA). Last week we had 11 self-described adults turn up to training and 4 Korean students. As you can see, the numbers are now starting to grow exponentially.

Disrupting our momentum a little bit is tomorrow’s Saigon Touch Tournament. It will push our footy training back to about 5pm (we will have to play it by ear. Start time will depend entirely on what time the touch tournament finishes). If you can, come out earlier and support the Touch – and encourage them to support us the following week so we can get the numbers to fill a Saigon side and to supplement numbers for the Hanoi Swans.

The high flying Matt Wenkel who flew out to Sydney last night has suggested that Saigon has a high powered meeting to discuss tactics (eg name a coach, a captain, a field umpire, a goal umpire etc etc) and “other stuff” prior to the big clash on 21 April. Stay tuned for details on that one but it will probably be Wednesday night.

Hanoi Swans Footy Tipping Comp

It seems like the Hanoi Swans footy tipping comp is rigged. I logged on yesterday to www.footytips.com.au and I’m allegedly coming last out of 29 tipsters in the Swans comp. To put that in perspective, the website claims that of all the competitions registered, I’m coming in at a competitive 187,053 out of 197,052 tipsters. Unheard of.

Gaelic Football in Singapore

Patty’s brother, Brian O’Reilly from Saigon RMIT is wanting to put a Vietnam Gaelic football side together for a tournament in Singapore from 22 – 24 June. If you’d like to be part of that, whether you’re from Saigon or Hanoi, I’ve attached the details. For further info, contact Brian directly (brian.oreilly@rmit.edu.vn) or myself.

And finally, today’s Saigon Report

Weather: Hot. Damned hot.

Traffic conditions: Still. Damned still.