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October 20, 2010
At last weekend’s Asian Championships in Shanghai, the Swannies played Singapore first up. We lost the game and our gun player, Lucas Skelton who received a cut to the eyelid which required 5 stitches. Malaysia were up next and Matty […]
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October 19, 2010
The Final ladder has been announced for the 2010 Asian Champs. The Vietnam Swans finished in 7th place with two victories (against Thailand and the Barbarians) and two losses (Singapore (eventual runners up) and Malaysia). This was Vietnam’s strongest ever […]
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October 19, 2010
The Swannies have started flying out of Shanghai and returning to Vung Tau, Saigon, Hoi An and Hanoi after a very successful Asian Champs campaign. The first photos are now available on the Vietnam Swans Web Album. As well as […]
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October 16, 2010
The Vietnam Swans have won 2 of our 4 matches beating the Thailand Tigers and the Barbarians. In our other two matches, we lost to Singapore and Malaysia. Dubai were outright winners of the Champs for the third consecutive year. […]
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October 15, 2010
Dear Swannies, Sponsors and Supporters The Vietnam Swans started flying out yesterday. This morning, the rest will fly out from Saigon. The destination is Shanghai for the 11th Annual Asian Champs and the Shanghai Showdown between Melbourne and Brisbane. We’ll […]
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October 14, 2010
Roscoe Ross McRae unveils his masterpiece for the Vietnam Swans in Shanghai at the 11th Annual Asian Championships tomorrow.
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October 14, 2010
Last night, Swannie Michael Johnston (MJ) presented Jo Stewart and the Tri Bob Austswim crew a cheque for VND52.625million (the equivalent of USD2,699 at today’s exchange rates) to go towards the Hoi An Swimming Program. VND40million was raised at the […]
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October 13, 2010
At the Vietnam Swans 2010 AFL Grand Final Party in Saigon, we auctioned off a jumper that was donated by Melbourne’s Rohan Bail. Next weekend, at the Asian Championships in Shanghai, the Vietnam Swans will return the favour. We will […]
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October 13, 2010
On Monday, 11 October 2010, the Vietnam Investment Review’s Timeout Magazine, published an article on the Vietnam Swans. It is reproduced below. In March 2010, AFL Superstars Nathan Buckley and Garry O’Donnell joined a Vietnam Swans footy clinic in Saigon. […]
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October 12, 2010
The countdown has well and truly started for this weekend’s mega fix of footy in Asia: the 11th Asian Championships on Saturday followed by Sunday’s Shanghai Showdown between Melbourne and Brisbane. The AFL’s website, www.afl.com.au, has just posted the following […]
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October 12, 2010
David Matthews is the AFL’s General Manager of National and International Development. He has just written to the the Asian Football Clubs thanking us for scheduling our 2010 Asian Championships alongside the Kaspersky Cup in Shanghai. The Champs will be […]
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October 11, 2010
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhsQMgDwUsw&fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0] Channel 7’s Sunday Night program recently followed Loreto Vietnam’s Sr Trish Franklin around Melbourne and HCMC. The program went to air last night on the 7 Network in Australia. The show opens with Trish watching the Collingwood Vs Geelong […]
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October 10, 2010
Five months ago, back in May, Mark Wall was in Hanoi looking for a Vietnam Swans jumper to take back to Sydney with him. You see, Mark was wanting to hang it on the wall at the Courthouse Hotel at […]
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October 9, 2010
Yesterday, in an article written by Michael Smith, the Saigon Times reported that: An Australian football star from the AFL Sydney Swans team is leading a cycling tour in NorthernVietnam to raise money for Australian cancer research for kids. Now […]
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October 7, 2010
The Tarrawingee Bulldogs who arrived in Vietnam an hour after the first AFL Grand Final had finished a fortnight ago, have just arrived safely back in Wangaratta, Australia. So far, it seems like everything here in Vietnam is still OK! […]
