News Archive
  •  September 4, 2007

    For the Asian Champs, Mgard very generously sponsored each Vietnam Swans player with a mouthguard each. Despite reading the glowing scientific research about the mouthguards, Coach Scotty Stacey and Pres Phil Johns elected to wear their own lucky mouthguards during the Champs. But […]

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  •  September 4, 2007

    Yesterday, The Age reported that a Sydney man bid AUD123,000 in an auction to be the first person to buy a seat on the first commercial flight of the world’s largest airliner, the Airbus A380. Julian Hayward was the successful bidder […]

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  •  September 4, 2007

    Last Thursday, the Saigon Saints, organisers of the Vietnam Airlines Saigon Saints Grand Final Brunch, contacted the Vietnam Swans to advise that their event has sold out – 2 days before tickets were to have gone on sale to the public! The Saigon […]

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  •  September 3, 2007

    Barely a few weeks into the job, the opinionated Taber has already missed his Monday morning deadline for getting the AFL Wrap to the Swans Blog.  Perhaps we might start expressing a few opinions of our own. However, in fairness to him, he did […]

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  •  September 3, 2007

    With just 26 days to go before the Vietnam Swans AFL Grand Final Party in Hanoi, here’s your chance at picking who our sponsors are with the cryptic crossword below (which doesn’t even include Chi Linh Golf Course – 8 […]

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  •  September 2, 2007

    Special thanks to Kev Dacey – who goal umpired and played (no official complaints have been received yet from the Hong Dragons about that!) – for preparing the following match report from yesterday’s game between the Vietnam Swans and the Hong […]

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  •  September 1, 2007

    Amazing scenes last night could spell disaster for the Swans today in their keenly awaited match against the Hong Kong Dragons. Swans Micky Johnston was scheduled to take a Vietnam Airlines flight last night at 9pm from Hanoi – with the […]

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  •  August 30, 2007

    With less than 24hrs before the Hong Kong Dragons fly into Saigon using a more conventional scheduled commercial flight, Saigon is abuzz. What do the Asian Champs look like up close? As well as playing footy this coming weekend, the Dragons […]

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  •  August 30, 2007

    Dave “Flyer” Kainey sent in this link to excerpts from Year of the Dogs. There’s a great one with Terry Wallace expressing his disappointment with his Dogs after they lost by less than a goal. The Dogs had played magnificent footy […]

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  •  August 29, 2007

    While the Vietnam Swans are 100 per cent focussed on the coming weekend when we play the Hong Kong Dragons, we’re equally focussed on the fact that it’s a long weekend and that the Grand Final is just a month away. […]

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  •  August 28, 2007

    Remember we had Di from Australia advising us that she would be coming to Hanoi’s Grand Final Party as part of a group of 10? It’s now grown to 11. Di has provided us with a breakdown of where they’re from (it’s ugly) and who […]

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  •  August 28, 2007

    The Dominating Hong Kong Dragons are just 4 days away from hopefully, a jolly good slaying in Saigon. Meanwhile, Vietnam is abuzz with rumours about a blitz of Johnsies taking the field for the big match. Club President Phil Johns, renowned […]

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  •  August 27, 2007

    The Vietnam Swans’ former Prez, Daryl Taber, gives his weekly opinionated and hard hitting review of the weekend’s footy. With a week’s tipping to go in the Vietnam Swans Footy Tipping Comp, Kutch, like the Cats, had a slight stumble. Chris and Sridhar […]

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  •  August 24, 2007

    It’s only one more week to go before the Swans are out there at RMIT, Saigon, slaying some Hong Kong Dragons. Hong Kong has confirmed that they will tour with 29. Spots have been filling up fast in the Swans team […]

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  •  August 23, 2007

    Today, the Vietnam Swans received an email from a group of 10 Australians who will be holidaying through Vietnam at the time of the AFL Grand Final. Di from Bairnsdale, Victoria, wrote that “we have found your site on the web […]

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