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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! […]
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October 5, 2010
On Sunday 19 September, Dave Hadley and Margrete Helle represented the Swannies in teaching Vietnamese children, from the School for the Blind, how to swim. They joined about five other trainers, looking after 25 students, at the Australian International School’s […]
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October 5, 2010
Last Sunday, the day after the 2010 AFL Grand Final Replay, Mark “Willy” Williams wandered back into JASPAS, Hanoi. He looked. He stared. He rubbed his eyes. Was he seeing things? In front of him, were two premiership players from […]
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October 4, 2010
Ross McRae has just sent through 100 photos that he took of the Vietnam Swans 2010 AFL Grand Final Redux Party in District 2, Saigon. We had over 100 people attend despite the heavens opening just as people were getting […]
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October 3, 2010
As you may have already heard, the ‘Pies belted the Saints yesterday in the 2010 AFL Grand Final Replay. Collingwood won 108 to St Kilda’s 52. In Hanoi, the Swannies hosted a Replay Party at JASPAS again. It was another […]
