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April 2, 2011
Hanoi Prez, Mark “Willy” Williams tells us what happened when ex Vietnam Football League player and current legend, Stan Middleton and his wife, Ms Sinh, turned up to Hanoi. After a hard slog with a training session lead by Dan […]
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April 1, 2011
Most of you know Toby, who played at least three games for the Swans before retiring due to injury. Tobes is heading back to Australia on Sunday and he’s going to have his last Bia Hoi tonight. If anyone has […]
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April 1, 2011
Last weekend, the boys in Saigon, together with Willy, Stanno and Dave from Hanoi played a scratch match at RMIT University. The cause? The 2011 ANZAC Friendship Match in Vung Tauin three week’s time.
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March 31, 2011
The Lao Elephants Prez, Paul Simcock, confirms that the 2011 Indochina Cup will be played in Vientiane on 25 November 2011. Hello Presidents (Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand) We would like to confirm the date/s for the Indochina Cup which will be […]
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March 29, 2011
Last Friday, back in Melbourne, former Skipper, Monkey, married Kels. They were lucky enough to have Nat and Steph in their midst. Nat read a Swannies telegram to the crowd: “Monkey, contrary to popular mischievous opinion, you are a living […]
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March 25, 2011
AFL Star, Richard “Ossie” Osborne has confirmed that he will come out of retirement to play in the 2011 ANZAC Friendship Match in Vung Tau – thanks to the generous support of Club Sponsors, Jim Beam and Pest Free. The […]
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March 22, 2011
The Malaysian Warriors and Vietnam Swans have been trying to confirm a match for some time. Originally, one was scheduled for 21 May – but that had to cancelled when it was realised that the Malaysians were facing an important […]
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March 20, 2011
Just because the Swannies are busy doing everything else, it doesn’t mean that we’ve stopped doing the normal things in life – like getting married and having babies. On 30 December, Heater and Paula had a beautiful baby boy named, […]
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March 19, 2011
Swannie, David Hadley, who has spent a lot of time with the KOTO Kids, writes about KOTO founder, Jimmy Pham, who was recognised earlier in the month with a Young Global Leader award from the World Economic Forum. The Vietnam […]
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March 18, 2011
The Saigon Prez, Dez, gives his update. Gents, after another challenging week in good old HCMC, plus no footy action on the box this weekend, there is surely only one option which will help quench that footy thirst. And that […]
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March 18, 2011
Below is a message from one of the organisers of tomorrow’s Christchurch fundraiser in Hanoi, Eric Backhouse. A quick reminder that the Christchurch Earthquake Fundraiser is on tomorrow at 2pm in Jaspas, Level 4, Hanoi Towers. I’m sure you have […]
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March 18, 2011
CHRISTCHURCH fundraiser tomorrow, Hanoi Tomorrow in Hanoi, the community will come together at 2.30pm, JASPAS (4th Floor, Hanoi Towers) to raise money for the victims of the recent Christchurch Earthquake. Tickets are VND300,000 and are available at the door. You […]
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March 16, 2011
It’s been a long time between footy reports on the Swannies Blog, but tonight, it’s back to business. The Guangzhou Scorpions have just confirmed that they can and will tour Saigon for a footy match against the Vietnam Swans on […]
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March 15, 2011
Last Wednesday, 9 March 2011, there was a reunion of the Australian Diggers from 2Comp Ord / 2AOD who were based in Vung Tau and their Vietnamese employees from back in the late 1960s. The leader of the return tour […]
