With only one known retirement, it was certainly a surprise that four have been promoted. Having said that with six SG1 referees who will be over 50 by August I'm not sure that they had much choice but to promote more than usual. With the usual cautious first season appointing to the PL I'm sure that they will be helping out the reduced numbers in the SG2.
Pleased to see 4 going up to the PL - especially Gillett who was comfortably the best in the Championship and produced one of the best refereeing performances I've seen in a long time in the Play Off semi finals. Brooks and Harrington were similarly quite predictable. The one which surprised me was Salisbury - clearly he has a lot of talent to make such a quick rise to the top flight. The last referee to get such a rapid ascent to the Premier League was Chris Kavanagh.
Salisbury's one year on the SG2 following promotion from the National Group is certainly the quickest since that select group was introduced in 2016. Although he was promoted to the NG in 2016 along with Rob Jones.
The net gain in SG1 and net loss in SG2 leads me to predict a rash of posts next season complaining about the new SG1 members not getting enough Premier League games.
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