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September 11, 2008
Being involved in a Club when you’re overseas is a great experience. Often, it’s not until you actually leave that the depth of the experience crystalises. For those of us left behind to continue flying the flag, it’s always good […]
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September 10, 2008
The Grand Final Party Saigon Do you feel like you’ve got AFL Finals Fever? Not surprised. The Vietnam Swans, fresh from last weekend’s Asian Championships in Singapore, are now focused on hosting the Official Vietnam Swans AFL Grand Final Party […]
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September 9, 2008
In 2004, Swans President, Dave Kainey who lived a previous life with the Jakarta Bintangs, spoke to his charges at Hanoi’s dust bowl, Dead Cat Stadium. He spoke of the wonders of the “Asian Championships” competition. Everyone looked on goggle-eyed wondering how it […]
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September 8, 2008
The 2008 Asian Champs Jo Mitchell has kindly taken a lot of photos of the Asian Champs. A selection of them appear to the left. If you would like to see nearly 200 more photos, go to Jo’s photo gallery.
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September 7, 2008
Yesterday, the Dubai Heat took out the 2008 Asian Championships in Singapore. They were too hot all day winning their four preliminary games, their semi final and lastly, the big one against Singpore. In the Semi Finals, Dubai accounted for […]
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September 5, 2008
Above are some photographs taken at the recent Vietnam Swans Vs HMAS ANZAC match held at RMIT University, Saigon on 27 August 2008. For more photos, click onto the Vietnam Swans photo album.
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September 5, 2008
For a blow by blow account of the schedule for tomorrow’s Asian Champs which will be played in Singapore tomorrow at the Polo Club, click on the asian-champs-schedule. Meanwhile, most of the Hanoi boys flew out last night for Singapore. […]
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September 5, 2008
Sydney Swans / South Melbourne Player of the Century, Tony Morwood – now General Manager for the Sydney Swans in Melbourne and Canberra – has written in to the Vietnam Swans Blog with a “best wishes” message for Saturday’s Asian […]
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September 4, 2008
Eddie the Mexican at last year In the lead up to Saturday’s Asian Champs, Eddie the Mexican, the bloke who was unlucky enough to be fined last year for being “the only Mexican on tour” has written to the Blog […]
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September 3, 2008
As part of the AFL’s celebration of 150 years of football, they are holding a competition to find Australia’s favourite footy jumper. The winning entry will receive $10,000 of Nike training equipment. Even though we don’t play in Australia, the […]
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September 3, 2008
AusCham The Australian Chamber of Commerce’s (Auscham) news magazine for the 3rd Quarter of 2008 has come out with a story on the Vietnam Swans. Miss Australia has somehow managed to sneak back into the limelight… To read the story in pdf […]
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September 3, 2008
At last week’s match against the HMAS ANZAC, we quoted the ANZAC’s coach, Irvo, as saying that “this is a momentous occasion for an Australian warship to play an AFL match in Vietnam”. It was also momentous for a number […]
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September 1, 2008
Tonight, under the supervision of your local friendly CPA – and the eyes of ESPN’s cameras, the draw for the 2008 9th Annual Asian AFL Championships occurred. In Group A: Bali China Singapore Malaysia Jakarta In Group B: Hong Kong […]
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September 1, 2008
News just received from the organisers of the Asian Champs: Asian Championships Draw Monday September 1st, 7pm Singapore Time Good Morning All, The Draw for the Asian Championships of Australian Football will take place today […]
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August 30, 2008
HMAS ANZAC Match Day Banner This is “a momentous occasion for an Australian warship to play an AFL match in Vietnam”, wrote Brent “Irvo” Irving, coach of the HMAS Anzac’s team. On Tuesday, a number of the Vietnam Swans players […]
