The Bristol Rovers board will be hearing no complains from manager Paul Tisdale regarding the club's new training base, The Quarters.
The training ground, in Almondsbury, opened last month and Tisdale has been hugely impressed by the playing surfaces.
A clubhouse remains in development, with Rovers using facilities nearby for changing, eating and meetings, but regardless Tisdale is delighted to have the training pitches – which are a replica of the top-quality surface at the Mem – to work on.
"It has been fabulous," Tisdale told Bristol Live. "If we had to write a list of all the things we need at a training ground from top to bottom, the grass and the quality of surface is number one.
"There are plenty of things I would compromise on if I could have a playing surface like we have at the training ground. We have it and I’m incredibly grateful for that.
"I can put up with all sorts of nuisances, especially while were going through this development process, but there’ll be no grumbles about the training ground while we have playing surfaces like that.
"Daryle – the groundsman – and his colleagues have got a wonderful facility to look after and it is fabulous."
The training ground was just one of many factors that made the Gas job so appealing to Tisdale, and the former Exeter City and MK Dons boss – who manages his first home game against non-league Darlington in the FA Cup on Sunday – believes he has a "wonderful opportunity" at the Mem.
"There were numerous things that excited me about taking this role," he said on Thursday.
"Getting back into football was one of them, but you add to this particular role the fact there is a steady ownership and a sensible plan and it’s a club I’m very fond of and had affinity to for a long time ago.
"It made it an absolute must for me to be available to apply and be part of that process.
"I was really pleased to have the opportunity to speak to the club, and I’m delighted to have the chance.
"Football is having a really difficult time at the moment, the industry is in financial difficulty, so to be at a club that has a strong footing through all of that gives you a chance as a manager.
"There’s nothing sinister around the corner. You’ve got an opportunity to build something and we have to win games of course, but that base coupled with the fact it’s a club I’ve always had an affinity to since I was 10 years old, it was just a wonderful opportunity for me."
