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August 13, 2007
Special thanks to Assistant Coach, Micky Johnston for the following match report from the Asian Champs. Game 1: Vietnam Swans Vs China Reds – Everyone arrived at the bus pick-up: Good start. Scotty said, “For the next 8 hours, […]
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August 12, 2007
Former Swans President, Dave “Flyer” Kainey, often points out what’s good and what’s not in Asian football. It’s since been pointed out that the Flyer was the Bintang’s runner during the recent Champs – for which he miraculously escaped the wrath of the […]
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August 12, 2007
If you thought those Elephants would have quietly returned to Laos, never to be seen again, think again. The rumble from the jungles of Laos is turning into thunder. The boys have just received a burst of publicity from World […]
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August 11, 2007
1. There’s just 3 weeks to go before Vietnam will host the Hong Kong Dragons down in Saigon on 1st September. Please confirm if you will be playing. It’s always good to go into a match with a bit of confidence that we […]
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August 10, 2007
With only 50 days to go before the Grand Final, the Club believes we should treat like any other block of 50 days. So we’ve managed to find a website that deals with beer – cheap beer. Chris Canty (former Swans […]
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August 10, 2007
Peter “Harbs” Habel from the Malaysian Warriros did some good, solid research prior to the Asian Champs. He produced a White Paper on Asia’s Best Bars. So whether you’re living in or going to Vietnam, Malaysia, China, Hong Kong etc, you […]
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August 8, 2007
You may remember an incident during the match against the Bali Geckos where there were a few people who were sin-binned. The first guy sent off for the Geckos was a guy by the name of Sam Pritchard. Shane’s a best […]
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August 8, 2007
Last week, World Footy News reported that the Japan AFL has officially started promoting the 2007 Narita Cup. The Narita Cup will be held on 6 October in Tokyo and will coincide with the 20th anniversary of footy in the country. […]
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August 8, 2007
With all the excitement of the Asian Champs and the unification of an Australian Rules Footy team in Vietnam, the Swans Blog has unwittingly and regretfully got behind with what our Vietnamese cousins are getting up to back in Australia. A […]
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August 7, 2007
This afternoon in Hanoi, superstar of the 1970’s Countdown TV show, Ian “Molly” Meldrum, officially launched the Vietnam Swans Grand Final Countdown Clock. The Countdown Clock will appear in the sidebar of the Swans Blog and is expected to generate […]
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August 6, 2007
The 2007 Saigon Saints Vietnam Airlines AFL Grand Final Brunch’s campaign has officially kicked off with the announcement that they have recruited Rod Ashman as their special guest speaker. For those of you who aren’t fully familiar with Rod Ashman, […]
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August 6, 2007
The beauty about playing in major international championships is that you have heaps of camera angles to see what really happened. Here, Bossink bares his teeth and says to Thailand’s Cameron Sinclair, “Come and get me!”. So Cameron did and […]
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August 6, 2007
What is the definition of an international footy sl*t? The answer is the Rooster. Rooster, pictured with Will Martin to the left, has recently written to the Swans asking for contact details of the Brunei Sharks and Laos Elephants. The reason? He […]
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August 4, 2007
For a while, we thought that we did not have a photo of the official team shoot. The photographer used by the Thailand Tigers even sent through an apology saying that he had forgotten to take a photo of us […]
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August 4, 2007
After a period of silence since the Asian Champs, Pago has gone on the record to explain why we were fined at all! The day after the Champs, at 11am on the Sunday morning, when a few of the red and […]
