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September 8, 2007
As people queued to get into Jaspas, Hanoi, on that Grand Final morning back in 2003, someone mentioned that the (formerly) Hanoi Swans had been in Melbourne’s Herald Sun newspaper the previous day. What? We were in the Herald Sun on Grand Final eve? […]
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September 8, 2007
Today, the Wallabies will kick off their 2007 World Cup Campaign in Paris against easy-beats, Japan. Earlier in the week, a French media representative suggested that the Wallabies would need to beat the Japanese by at least 50 points to […]
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September 7, 2007
To have a record that goes Platinum, you need to sell a million copies. To have one of the most awesome days in your entire life, you need the live telecast of an AFL Grand Final into Hanoi – and Platinum Sponsors. […]
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September 7, 2007
Thanks very much to the Swans photographer, Landon Carnie, who has taken some fantastic photos from last weekend’s block buster match between the Vietnam Swans and the Hong Dragons. If you like the look of the photos and are hungry for […]
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September 6, 2007
Below are the telecast times in Vietnam for the first week of the AFL Finals: FRIDAY @ 7.30pm, Qualifying Final Port Adelaide vs West Coast Eagles – AAMI Stadium, Adelaide SATURDAY @ 12.30pm, Elimination Final Hawthorn vs Adelaide – Telstra Dome, Melbourne SATURDAY @ […]
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September 5, 2007
Following an invitation from Taber Talk, Chris Batchelor – winner of the Vietnam Swans AFL Tipping Comp – has just announced his tips for the first week of the finals (the Goose has given them to us even before we […]
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September 5, 2007
Belated news from the hard hitting, opinionated Taber… Please accept my apologies for this week’s brief, late report. The fact is I took an extra day to show my full respect for the Monday National Holiday here in Vietnam. I […]
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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 […]