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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 […]
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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 […]
