Alan Wiley was a referee who I much admired but his promotion opportunities suffered, particularly internationally, through coming on the scene late. I can remember seeing him a few times in his West Midlands league days and thinking that he was one who would almost certainly make it on to the League list and when he did, he soon made his mark and became one of the safest pairs of hands on the SG.
I have no reason at all to doubt that he isn't doing just as well in his present role with SG2 but we do need to be careful and not assume that just because someone has been a very fine referee, they are going to be as good at managing and/or coaching others in that job. I am sure many of us have seen people in all sorts of walks of life where someone good at his or her job has been promoted as a result into a managerial or supervisory role which has turned out to be disastrous and way above their level of competence. The skills and requirements of such a role are often quite different and for which some people simply don't have the aptitude and/or for which they receive inadequate training. A big problem is that, quite often, those that do the promoting are themselves in a job for which they are not sufficiently trained, well suited or equipped!