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June 8, 2007
Jim Beam has announced that it will be a major sponsor of the Vietnam Swans for the upcoming 2007 Asian Championships. Andy Wall, Jim Beam’s Area Director for South East and North East Asia, and Mr Thien advised that Jim Beam will […]
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June 7, 2007
Pete Westwood, goal umpire extraordinaire. Gained notoriety amongst all die-hard and casual Hanoi Swans supporters in October of last year in the match against the CARE AFL All Stars. Pete famously lost one of the 3 goals that we booted and […]
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June 7, 2007
Are ya hearin me? If you think you are, post a comment for all to see. All will be revealed…
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June 7, 2007
Rooster’s now getting up at 3am. Having seen on the Swans Blog that the Hanoi Swans enjoyed the services of the Big Finn, Antti, he has employed the services of a Bloodhound to find him (“Yahs??”). The bloodhound has sent out an […]
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June 5, 2007
We’re used to high flying men but last week’s emails flying around the Asian Footy Houses about random and seeded draws, to say the least, was fairly interesting for us Swans in our first Championships year. Pizza Dan from the Bali […]
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June 5, 2007
You may recall that our neighbours in Laos are so excited about the Champs that they’re planning on starting a new club called the “Lao Elephants – Slow, fat and almost extinct”. Upon learning of the Swans colour clash with […]
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June 5, 2007
As you will be aware, the Australian Socceroos will be playing at the 2007 Asian Soccer Cup in Bangkok on the same weekend as our Aussie Rules Champs. On Friday, 13 July, the Socceroos play Iraq at 5:20pm. On Monday 16 July, […]
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June 4, 2007
World Footy News has just written a preview of the 2007 Asian Championships. It appears that the Socceroos have also been invited to attend the Champs. How lucky are they? World Footy News believes that the United Arab Emirates will […]
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June 4, 2007
It is extraordinary! People are just coming out of the woodwork from everywhere. Now living in Tianjin, China, Colin and Kay Mitchell who are still Social Members of the Hanoi Swans, have said that they’re coming down for the Champs. When they lived in […]
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June 4, 2007
Tonight, Brett Malcolm from Saigon officially handed over his email address and is now locked in to become the 35th person to tour with the Swans. Passion is rugby but, judging by the husky voice, genuine passion is gargling scotch for breakfast. […]
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June 4, 2007
Peter Bossink, the man who kept us all guessing until this morning, has formally advised that he will play in the Champs. He is the 33rd person to tour with the Swans. His player profile which was sent to Bangkok […]
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June 3, 2007
AusCham in Saigon has invited the Vietnam Swans to promote the Asian Championships at its next Sundowners monthly networking function. Sundowners will be held at the Norfolk Mansion on Thursday, 7 June from 6pm. The goal-striped QBE Vietnam Swans hats will […]
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June 3, 2007
Down in Saigon yesterday, we had 12 people turn up for a training session which finished off with a scratch match. Magnificent to have a few numbers. However, Vietnam continually throws out fresh challenges. Just as we’re getting some momentum in the […]
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June 3, 2007
“Swans jumpers” have recently been sighted in far away places like Singapore and Tokyo… Well, fakes have been sighted. But I guess you need to expect that in a region where, seemingly, every country’s national colours are red and white. The Singapore […]