Yesterday the Vietnam Swans announced that the long awaited and much anticipated return tour to Malaysia to play the Malaysian Warriors will happen on 8 March 2008.

Club President, Phil Johns, said that the match would be an important one for the club. “In 2005 we played the Warriors in KL and gave them a real fright. In Hanoi, 2006 they were too strong for us. We’ve just witnessed the successful ‘Kevin 07’ campaign and the ‘Swans 07’ campaign to Malaysia was to have been just as successful. Alas, the tour had to be postponed due to unprecedented circumstances (a lack of numbers).

“But now we have a confirmed date for Q1 next year, the boys will be able to focus.

“Some of the boys are so focussed, they’ve  even vowed to skip Christmas dinner this year”. Unheard of professionalism creeping into the Swans line up for 2008 which is already being billed as the Season of the Swan.