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June 15, 2007
Last night was the deadline for footy players who wanted to play for the Swans in the Champs to put up their hands. The General, Travel Trav Fennell, stuck up his hand. Has gone into battle for the Swans at home on […]
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June 14, 2007
Just a reminder, Jim Beam is a Major Sponsor of the Vietnam Swans. Keep an eye out for details of the Jim Beam Parties that are coming up in both Hanoi and HCMC that will be used to raise both funds […]
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June 13, 2007
As you may be aware, the Asian Championships will be held in Bangkok on 14 July. 10 teams from the UAE, China, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Japan, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, Bali and Jakarta shall all attend. Surely, if anyone can do […]
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June 13, 2007
Today, players Euan and Jim Bullard confirmed they were set for Bangkok – being numbers 40 and 41 respectively for the tour. Euan has dazzling silky skills that were used to devastating effect for Saigon against Hanoi in April. Young […]
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June 13, 2007
Last week, the Swans Blog crossed a Rooster with a Finn. Subsequent discussions between the two seem to be bearing fruit which means the future of Finnish football could be in good hands. Yesterday, Tim Smyth from Phnom Penh was […]
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June 13, 2007
Swans Super Savvy Coach, Scotty Stacey, has called for a halt to the recruitment drive for new players. Playing a minimum of 4 matches (and a maximunm of 5 matches if we’re good enough to make it into the Grand Final), with […]
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June 13, 2007
Mr Rooster was able to get in contact with ex Swans player, Antti the Finn. Antti said that he would have been very keen to make it to Vienna for the CEAFL Premiership. Alas, he had already booked a “luxurious weekend […]
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June 13, 2007
Today, the Swans were doing some spring cleaning and discovered a lonely email address on the “Players for Champs” spreadsheet. It turned out to be Tim Smyth, our 39th tourer. Tim’s not a bad find at all. Tim’s from Phenomenal Penh, is […]
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June 12, 2007
The Rooster will be crowing! You may recall that the Singapore Wombat, Mr Rooster, set off for Vienna last weekend to be with his Finland team for the Central European AFL (CEAFL) Champs. Rooster wasn’t feeling as confident as he had […]
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June 12, 2007
Media Moghul Rupert Murdoch, between hands at the Dow Jones, today made an extraordinary bid for the Swans Blog Site. There was some shock at this news – and a wee bit of awe for the Swans – when the […]
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June 11, 2007
Today, at some time GMT, just 5 weeks after launching, the Swans’ Blog punched through the 1,000 hits barrier. When questioned about this extraordinary feat, the Swans President explained that it was “ah-mazing!”. When asked how the team would celebrate […]
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June 9, 2007
Will Sandman, superstar Aussie Rules player for Louisville, Kentucky, has just emailed in to say that “Jim Beam is made about 30 minutes from my house”. Now, that’s gotta put the Sandman within walking distance of the Swans newest sponsor! While Will […]
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June 9, 2007
Further to the posting below, the Vietnamese-Aussie Elgar Park Dragons in Melbourne today gave Old Geelong an absolute caning. The score was 16.20.116 to 3.6.24 Again, how amazing is it to see the names of their goal kickers and best players? (It seems […]
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June 9, 2007
Last week, worldfootynews.com ran a story on the Vietnam Swans entitled “Vietnam starts talking local development”. The article mentions the Auskick program at the UN International School which Darly Taber and Adam Baird are doing such a mighty job with. It also […]
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June 9, 2007
Five weeks today, we’re there in Thailand playing in our inaugural Asian Champs. On Thursday night, the Hanoi contingent had 12 at Dead Cat Stadium which included King Cong (congratulations on becoming a father!) and Naom from Saigon who is en […]
