In terms of the pitch at Starks for some reason or another we ended up with a rugby pitch (f**k knows what the difference is) but it seems to be praised universally by just about everyone who's played on it.
The issue we have is it's been down about 6 years and although wearing really well will probably need changed at some point.
We also have another consideration which is that all our community youth teams, seniors and first team play/train on it pretty much every day.