Left. 20 July 2013: Vietnam Swans Vs Malaysian Warriors, Saigon. Right. 21 June 2008: Vietnam Swans Vs Miss Australia, Saigon.

It doesn’t happen often but this website has felt compelled (yet again…) to bring back a photo of Miss Australia, Laura Dundovic from the time she visited Saigon in June 2008. Ms Laura was in Vietnam, primarily, to meet the Swannies (after all, she’s only human) but also to compete for the Miss Universe crown.

On Saturday, after the Vietnam Swans played the Malaysian Warriors in Saigon, intentionally or otherwise, the Swannies recreated that classic shot with Laura where eight Swannies (actually, just five were players and the other three were blow ins) carried Miss Australia at the foot of the stairs in the foyer of Saigon’s New World Hotel.

This time, eight Swannies (all of them ridgy didge current Swannies’ players) carried a woman named Ms Lisa Truong* (the Swannies’ personal trainer) in a similar style as we did with Miss Australia five years ago.

And there’s another constant in the two photos… Gus. (Left photo: Gus is second from right. Right photo, he is third from right.)

* Footnote: Special thanks to JR for advising that the “woman in the photo is Ms. Lisa Truong, the Swannies’ personal trainer. She has trained each member in the photo, hence our awesome bodies clearly demonstrated by Mark Harbison and JR…”

To see more photos of:

• The weekend’s match between the Vietnam Swans and Malaysian Warriors, click here.
• Miss Australia, Laura Dundovic meeting the Swannies in 2008, click here.