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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 […]
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December 7, 2012
The Swannies’ website is always keen to see where our legion of fans are wearing their Swannies’ merchandise. Last week, Anon, sent in this photo of two hard core Swannies’ supporters, sailin’ the dream in Thailand. Obviously, they were proudly […]
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December 6, 2012
The Rocket is Saigon’s umpire. Below is the Rocket’s rant, which he self describes as Rocket’s Rave, on last weekend’s 2012 Saigon Grand Final Match Report, 1st December, 2012. Tu Cuc University, National Sports University Stadium. Arguably, this is teh […]
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December 5, 2012
Ah McRae, you’ve done it again! Ross McRae Design has just unveiled the poster for the Swannies’ Melbourne Summer December 2012 Triple Header! The Swannies have organised golf, celebration soirees and a day a the MCG for teh test cricket […]
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December 4, 2012
Max Ball is a Vice President of the Vietnam Veterans’ Association of Australia (VVAA). The VVAA is a key organisation that represents a large number of Vietnam Veterans. Recently, the Vietnam Swans proposed to the AFL that it consider dedicating […]
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December 2, 2012
On 11 November 2012, the Vietnam Swans Hall of Fame was launched. Three outstanding Swannies were inducted. Inductee No.2 was Dave “Flyer” Kainey. The Hanoi Swans hit the international stage in November, 2003 at the Hanoi Invitational Cup which was […]
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November 30, 2012
Tomorrow, Nat Payne, in a Gus-like performance for the Swannies, will play his last game as a resident of Vietnam – for the second time. Tomorrow, of course, is Saigon’s blockbuster Grand Final between the Saigon Reds and Saigon Whites. […]
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November 30, 2012
Dave O’Shea, Chief Sporting Columnist for the Vietnam Swans’ website, for what seems like a really long time condensed into a really short time, finishes off a brilliant season of prose with an unbelievable preview of Saigon’s 2012 Grand Final […]
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November 29, 2012
On 11 November 2012, the Vietnam Swans Hall of Fame was launched. Three outstanding Swannies were inducted. Inductee No.1 was Michael Francis. The Swannies have been playing footy for nine years. But the Pied Piper of Hanoi, Mick Francis, has […]
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November 28, 2012
It’s 28 November today – and that means it is exactly one month before the Swannies’ Summer Sports’ Show, comprising a triple header, rolls into Melbourne for the 8th consecutive year. And this year we have some great door prizes […]
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November 27, 2012
On Sunday, 11 November, 2012, the Vietnam Swans inducted three outstanding servants of the Vietnam Swans Australian Football Club into our, just launched, Hall of Fame. While a formal selection criteria is still to be determined (click here for full […]
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November 27, 2012
Swannies superstar and chief footy columnist for the Swannies website, Dave O’Shea, has discovered Shakespeare during this post Indochina Cup blues… With the lack of recent Swannies’ functions, I have been having withdrawals so I have done some research and […]
