Running water is Pie in the Sky for Croker
Running water is Pie in the Sky for Croker
Canberra Raiders legend Jason Croker won’t be running water, he’ll be walking it. That’s all his creaking knees will allow him to do for the Pie in the Sky charity game, at the Green Machine’s spiritual home of Seiffert Oval on Friday night.An All Stars team including Ken Nagas, Alan Tongue, Tom Learoyd-Lahrs and David Barnhill – and coached by Immortal Mal Meninga – will play Terry Campese’s Queanbeyan Blues to raise money for charities Treehouse and Respite Care for Queanbeyan.
But the players on the field might need to be patient about getting a drink.
“The old knees are not up to it. I’ll be walking the water out, mate, I won’t be running the water,” Croker said.
“It should be a good arvo. I’m looking forward to catching up with some old teammates and it’s for a great cause as well.”
Croker’s 1994 premiership teammate Nagas will be playing,with the former NSW winger happy to play on one condition! There’s a doctor on the sideline.
The 45-year-old has done a “little bit” of training, but was mainly looking forward to catching up and talking about the old days.
“Just reliving my youth like the rest of them I think,” Nagas joked.
“I said I don’t mind doing it as long as the doc’s there, as long as the doc and the physio is there, that’s all that matters.
“To get back and see a few of the guys that I haven’t seen for a while and catch up and talk about the good old days, and see where we’re at in regards to whether we’ve still got it.
“Hopefully we don’t snap anything. It’s been a long time since I’ve played a bit of physical contact.”
PIE IN THE SKY
There are lots of reasons that people want to build a luxury home. Some would say that it goes without even considering that everyone wants to live in a luxury home. So why don’t people do it more often?
Often when people are building their first homes, they are on a fairly tight budget. This doesn’t mean that they can’t have luxury homes. The interesting thing about building a first home is that many people assume that they will have to build a project or ‘cookie-cutter’ home from one of the mass-producing builders. We’re not going to name them here but you know the ones!
They are easily identified because they will give you a list of plans and layouts which look great in the booklet, but you’re quite limited to what they have and they’ll have a price against each one which may look very attractive.
Then you sit down with the salesperson and say, “I want to build this house on my block of land.”
You show them the map and photographs of the block that you are so proud of and the salesperson says, “Yes of course we can build on that.”
They don’t tell you that because your building site is fifty metres from the boundary or because you have a sloping block your building costs will be much higher.
They don’t tell you that the fittings and accessories in the display home are top of the line… That they will cost you thousands of dollars extra and way above the prices that are shown in the catalogue.
They don’t tell you that it may be difficult to get subcontractors into your area, or that it will cost more to get them there because your block may be further out than where they normally build.
That is of course unless you ask about all of these things.
Many people who aren’t experienced in buying or building homes don’t know the correct questions to ask to get the full picture.
You may be left with a false impression that you are going to get what appears to be a luxury home for a bargain price; that is until you are further down the track.
An expensive home is not a luxury home