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December 23, 2012
Dave O’Shea loves his Mum nearly as much as his Swannies. Dave O’Shea’s Mum loves him nearly as much as her Swannies. Dave has just sent in this photo of his Mum and a couple of unidentifieds dressed in their Swannies […]
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December 21, 2012
The Swannies don’t often rehash yesterday’s news. Unless it’s timely and/or important. Given today is a special day (the Mayon calendar says today is the end of the world), we’ve decided to shamelessly relive the glory days. Who could ever […]
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December 21, 2012
Sunday, 9 December, the day after the Swannies Christmas Party in Saigon, National President, Phil Johns and Ross McRae, Gun Designer, met up with 10 students from the University of West Sydney. Leading the tour were Tim Hall and Colin […]
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December 19, 2012
Last week, former coach of the Swannies, Josh Little, who now lives in Melbourne, caught up with Garry West-Bail. Garry is the former CEO of Queensland Hockey and ongoing father of Melbourne Football Club champion, Rohan Bail. Garry is also […]
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December 18, 2012
On the weekend, Age journalist Jake Niall wrote an interesting article, Cricket – dropped, kicked. Jake was saying that “football remaining in the headlines beyond grand final day is proving detrimental to summer sport”. He adds, “the Kurt Tippett scandal, […]
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December 17, 2012
Swannies’ Skipper, Dukesy, flew back into Melbourne on Saturday – and a barrage of updates commenced. First, he opened up the Age newspaper – and there was a review of the AFL Footy Almanac (the Foreword to the Almanac was, […]
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December 16, 2012
The Official Footy Record at the then Hanoi Swans’ first ever international tournament, the Hanoi Invitational in November, 2003, did a great job of deftly managing our expectations of the Little Guy. The Record wrote: “Scott Stacey (The Little Guy) […]
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December 15, 2012
Uncle Brian is not a Great Uncle of Saigon President, Nick Shiells. In a further sign of unadulterated awesomeness, Uncle Brian is an Awesome Uncle of Nick’s. Well may you ask, “Why?” Well, when the Swannies were desperately looking for […]
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December 14, 2012
Last weekend, the Pyramid Power Football Club celebrated “International Day” in the neighbouring Yarrabah Aboriginal Shire by wearing footy jumpers from different clubs around the world. Including the Vietnam Swans. Wes Hull, the man behind the idea of holding an […]
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December 13, 2012
Yesterday, this website ran an extraordinary story titled, If the Swannies were WWE superstars… A fantasy by Dave O’Shea“. Dave’s fantasy manifested itself as an in depth study that described and compared no less than 40 Swannies with their WWE […]
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December 12, 2012
The Swannies are a team of substance. Unquestionably. Last weekend at the Saigon Christmas Party, Swannies’ Superstar, Dave O’Shea took us all on a flight of fantasy and asked us to imagine we were all wrestlers from the smash hit […]
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December 11, 2012
Rod Gillet, or “Rocket” as he is known to those of us in the know, is an umpire extraordinaire for the Swannies. He is the master of lightening wit, erudite commentary and devastating insight. He has also just written the […]
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December 10, 2012
On 20 August 2012, World Footy News wrote and article that asked: “What does John Lennon’s ‘Imagine’ (‘Imagine all the people… sharing all the world’) have to do with linking up international Australian Football clubs all over the world? Well […]
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December 10, 2012
The Christmas bells have been ringing across the country this weekend with Swannies holding mega Christmas parties in Hanoi and Saigon. But the wedding bells have also been ringing. Earlier in the year, Dave Hadley married Margrete in Norway. He […]
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December 8, 2012
Last month, November, the Swannies website again recorded more than 10,000 hits; this time 10,054. This is a 16 per cent increase over the same month last year. It is also the 6th time in the last eight months that […]
