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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 […]
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June 1, 2007
In news just to hand, the Organising Committee of the 2007 Asian Champs has just announced through the President of the Thailand Tigers that at this year’s Champs: 1. Each team will play with 14 a side. Each team will have […]
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June 1, 2007
Is this one of the Swans Hats at the Grand Balisani Suites, Bali? The Paparazzi snapped this grainy photo three weeks ago in Bali with a camera armed with a super duper zoom. It certainly appears to look like one of the Swans’ […]
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June 1, 2007
Today, the Vietnam Swans Blog site punched through the 500 hits barrier. 300 of those hits have come in the past 8 days. When asked by the International Association of Domestic Bloggers (IADB) to respond to this amazing feat, the Swans President […]
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May 31, 2007
While the Asian heavy weights argue about light weight issues such as “seeding or random draws?” and “14 or 16 players?”, the Swans are beginning to focus more intently on the things that matter most: At the Champs, should we be wearing […]
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May 31, 2007
Today (yesterday, truth be known), Potsy officially became the 31st person to sign up for the Vietnam Swans touring party. Apparently he was able to secure a ticket of leave from Hanoi’s world famous, “Relax Bar”. Rumours were strong beforehand that this […]
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May 30, 2007
Hot on the heels of the previous day’s frenzy of emails being fired between Asia’s Footy Houses, things went unusually quiet. By lunchtime, still with nothing to distract the Swans from their day job, an email was urgently sent to Pizza Dan […]
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May 28, 2007
Ring-a-ding ding! The 2007 Asian Champs are already underway. Make no mistake about that. Yesterday’s blog was headlined “Proposed Match Schedule” for the Asian Champs. Today, that proposal was turned into pulverised pulp by some of the region’s biggest hitters. The Malaysian […]
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May 28, 2007
Swans Super Star, Mr Ed & his lovely wife, Kate, recently took Kate’s folks to meet the staff and students from the 19-5 Warmhouse Orphanage. They presented a big bag of educational and recreational materials donated by Gekko Trails NZ, which were […]
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May 28, 2007
After suffering Australian (& Borat) accents at bia hoi after training for a few weeks in a row, our newest Vietnamese recruit, Mr Ngo Cong, recently invited players back to his house for some local culcha. Beer was cold, wife […]
