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International Journal of Breast Cancer
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 506868, 9 pages
Review Article
Weight Gain, Metabolic Syndrome, and Breast Cancer Recurrence: Are Dietary Recommendations Supported by the Data?
1Department of Radiation Oncology, Kimmel Cancer Center and Jefferson Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA 19107, USA
2Department of Kinesiology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, USA
Received 27 April 2012; Accepted 27 August 2012
Academic Editor: Anne Rosenberg
Copyright © 2012 Colin E. Champ et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Citations to this Article [12 citations]
The following is the list of published articles that have cited the current article.
- Angela Kim, Keith Scharf, Maheswari Senthil, Naveenraj Solomon, Carlos Garberoglio, and Sharon S. Lum, "The prevalence of overweight and obesity in a breast clinic population: consideration for weight loss as a therapeutic intervention," Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases, 2013. View at Publisher · View at Google Scholar
- Brittany A Simone, Colin E Champ, Anne L Rosenberg, Adam C Berger, Daniel A Monti, Adam P Dicker, and Nicole L Simone, "Selectively starving cancer cells through dietary manipulation: methods and clinical implications," Future Oncology, vol. 9, no. 7, pp. 959–976, 2013. View at Publisher · View at Google Scholar
- Lee W. Jones, "Energy Balance and Metabolism After Cancer Treatment," Seminars in Oncology, vol. 40, no. 6, pp. 745–756, 2013. View at Publisher · View at Google Scholar
- Mika Hilvo, Stephan Gade, Tuulia Hyötyläinen, Valentina Nekljudova, Tuulikki Seppänen-Laakso, Marko Sysi-Aho, Michael Untch, Jens Huober, Gunter von Minckwitz, Carsten Denkert, Matej Orešič, and Sibylle Loibl, "Monounsaturated fatty acids in serum triacylglycerols are associated with response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy in breast cancer patients," International Journal of Cancer, 2013. View at Publisher · View at Google Scholar
- Mei-Chi Hsu, Kuo-Ting Lee, Wei-Chiang Hsiao, Chih-Hsing Wu, Hung-Yu Sun, I-Ling Lin, and Kung-Chia Young, "The dyslipidemia-associated SNP on the APOA1/C3/A5 gene cluster predicts post-surgery poor outcome in Taiwanese breast cancer patients: a 10-year follow-up study," BMC Cancer, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 330, 2013. View at Publisher · View at Google Scholar
- Dominic P. D'Agostino, Angela M. Poff, Csilla Ari, and Thomas N. Seyfried, "The Ketogenic Diet and Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Prolong Survival in Mice with Systemic Metastatic Cancer," Plos One, vol. 8, no. 6, 2013. View at Publisher · View at Google Scholar
- L. Gomez Flores-Ramos, A. Escoto-De Dios, A. M. Puebla-Perez, L. E. Figuera-Villanueva, A. Ramos-Silva, R. Ramirez-Patino, J. I. Delgado-Saucedo, E. Salas-Gonzalez, G. M. Zuniga-Gonzalez, A. Alonzo-Rojo, I. Gutierrez-Hurtado, and M. P. Gallegos-Arreola, "Association of the tumor necrosis factor-alpha-308G > A polymorphism with breast cancer in Mexican women," Genetics and Molecular Research, vol. 12, no. 4, pp. 5680–5693, 2013. View at Publisher · View at Google Scholar
- Guojiang Jin, Yan Zhao, Shuang Sun, and Hui Kang, "Association between the tumor necrosis factor alpha gene −308G> A polymorphism and the risk of breast cancer: a meta-analysis," Tumor Biology, 2014. View at Publisher · View at Google Scholar
- Carolina Pereira Zuconi, Ana Lígia Ceolin Alves, and Maria Isabel Toulson Davisson Correia, "Energy Expenditure in Women with Breast Cancer," Nutrition, 2014. View at Publisher · View at Google Scholar
- Rainer J. Klement, and Colin E. Champ, "Calories, carbohydrates, and cancer therapy with radiation: exploiting the five R's through dietary manipulation," Cancer and Metastasis Reviews, 2014. View at Publisher · View at Google Scholar
- Sagar Ghosh, Daniel Hughes, Dorothy Long Parma, Amelie Ramirez, and Rong Li, "Association of obesity and circulating adipose stromal cells among breast cancer survivors," Molecular Biology Reports, 2014. View at Publisher · View at Google Scholar
- Colin E. Champ, Joshua D. Palmer, Jeff S. Volek, Maria Werner-Wasik, David W. Andrews, James J. Evans, Jon Glass, Lyndon Kim, and Wenyin Shi, "Targeting metabolism with a ketogenic diet during the treatment of glioblastoma multiforme," Journal of Neuro-Oncology, 2014. View at Publisher · View at Google Scholar


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TOLEDO - The Toledo Walleye scored five unanswered goals tonight to defeat the Bakersfield Condors 5-1 in front of a sold-out crowd of 8,200 at the Huntington Center on Saturday night. Toledo improves their record to 22-17-0-4 and is now 10-7-0-3 at home.
Bakersfield opened the scoring just :52 into the game when Peter Boyd squeezed a puck over the goal line to give the Condors an early 1-0 lead.
The Walleye would answer back at the 5:08 mark of the opening period after forward Doug Clarkson picked up a rebound and wristed a shot behind Bakersfield goaltender Brian Stewart. Pat Knowlton assisted on the play that evened the scoring up at 1-1.
Toledo took a 2-1 lead with 1:28 to play in the first period with Cody Lampl chipping in on the offense. Lampl jumped up into the play and took a great give-and-go pass from Andrej Nestrasil and redirected a puck behind Stewart.
Walleye goalie Kent Simpson stopped 11 shots in the first 20:00 while Toledo fired 16 at the Bakersfield net.
Forward Trevor Parkes would pick up his second goal of the year after he banged home a shot from the ice on the power play. Parkes knocked in the rebound of Joey Martin's initial shot with the second assist going to Nestrasil at 11:54 of the second period.
The Walleye registered 12 shots at Stewart for a two-period total of 28. Simpson stopped all eight that Bakersfield sent at him.
Forward Joey Martin rifled a shot into the net after a Bakersfield player ran Parkes into Stewart. Martin's seventh goal of the year came at 10:31 of the third period, extending Toledo's lead to 4-1. Lampl collected the second assist on the goal.
Martin picked up his second of the night just :41 later, redirecting a pass from Parkes, to put the Walleye ahead 5-1. Nestrasil picked up his third assist of the night on the final goal of the game.

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April 8-14 is National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week
Date of News Release: 03/29/2012
(Madisonville, KY) - When violent storms and tornados ravaged 16 eastern Kentucky counties on the night of March 2, Kentucky State Police telecommunicators were some of the first to respond, handling urgent requests for assistance and sending emergency personnel and equipment to the stricken communities. Often working in excess of normal 12-hour shifts, they played vital roles in alerting law enforcement, fire, rescue and medical services, coordinating communications and directing help to where it was needed.
During the second week of April, Kentucky State Police telecommunications personnel at Post 2 in Madisonville will join more than 200,000 fellow communicators throughout the United States being recognized for their long hours and dedication to public safety.
"Across the state, our telecommunicators are just a phone call away for those seeking help in times of personal crisis or community disaster," says KSP Commissioner Rodney Brewer. "They are on duty every day, every night, every weekend and every holiday, providing a calming voice to citizens in need and behind-the-scenes support to first responders on the street. Their efforts often make the difference between life and death. They have earned a well-deserved salute for their dedication and service to the Kentucky State Police and the citizens of the Commonwealth."
KSP employs 187 telecommunicators at its 16 posts throughout the state. In 2011, they handled 529,175 calls.
Post 2 in Madisonville has 9 telecommunicators on staff who handle calls from seven counties: Caldwell, Christian, Crittenden, Hopkins, Muhlenberg, Todd, and Webster. Last year, they responded to 25,202 calls.
The Post 2 telecommunications team includes: Supervisor John Davis of Madisonville, Shift Supervisor Chris Rogers of Princeton, Martha Clark of Madisonville, Ronald Cobb of White Plains, Chris King of Central City, Robert Littlepage of Powderly, James Offutt of Madisonville, Lauren Robinson of Bremen, and Miria Thomas of Earlington.


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6/11/14: Charles Wright is the new U.S. Poet Laureate. Interview with David Graham: pbs.org/newshour/poetry/charles-wright-named-u-s-poet-laureate/
Urban Spoken Word Collective, the third-Thursday slam and poetry reading at Genna's on the Capitol square, was named one of Madison's best ways to live it up on a budget. m.isthmus.com/article.php?article=40890
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Mid-Penninsula groceries, farmer's mkts, etc
- toodie jane Apr 26, 2009 07:36 AM
Temporory resident looking for good neighborhood groceries, farmer's markets, etc. Will be saying about 4 months spring into early fall, it looks like. Not sure where we'll be based, maybe Mtn View but will be looking for suppliers up to the Palo Alto/Menlo Park area. Convenience and pleasant staff a real plus, as well as resonable pricing.
Let me know where you find the goods, the bargains and the helpful attitudes.
I like to support local farmers and businesses.
Can you Bay Area hounds help out a Central Coaster? Many many thanks.
Mountain View Farmers' Market is every Sunday, from 9 to 1 in the Caltrain parking lot, 600 W. Evelyn.
I'll echo the Mountain View Farmers Market recommendation - it is probably the largest on the peninsula. One of the vendors I like best is the Asian veggie stand in the Northeast corner - they sell all of their greens, etc. in bulk rather than rubber banded into bunches. This way you can pick out just the most succulent pieces you want... It's kind of a crazy scene but they have very nice fresh greens, etc.
Also, among the prepared foods, there is a Chinese dumpling stand - they sell frozen dumplings of many types. Talking with Ming who was staffing the booth today, we asked if he had a list of all the types they make - he gave us a sheet that lists 25 types including some that can be preordered. Their business is actually located in Fremont: OFS Food & Services, 510-226-1199, 3281 Seldon Ct., Fremont CA 94539. Ming says they are open every day but Monday from around 8:30 am to 6:00.
For an interesting grocery/prepared food place: check out Rose International Market - all sorts of good things including kebabs grilled to order over mesquite. Now that the weather is starting to improve, this is a great place to get some good grilled food and eat at one of their outdoor tables.
Rose International Market
1060 Castro St, Mountain View, CA 94040
OFS Food and Services
3281 Seldon Ct, Fremont, CA 94539
During the off season, we do the Sunnyvale market because Saturday is the only day we can go. It is OK, not great. Good tofu, and sometimes good deals on veggies. Palo Alto has two markets, but I have only been to Saturday, again limited but a few food vendors.
For produce stand places try Sigona's (RWC has more and you can get a bunch of coupons on their website, but there is also one at the Stanford mall), and Milk Pail in Mountain View can have fantastic deals. They don't always mark the origin if their produce, but often do. Milk Pail can be a zoo, but check out the well priced cheeses in the back.
For 4 months you could do a CSA - Two Small Farms I think has some shares left and the produce quality is fantastic. I think the pricing is good too. (www.twosmalfarms.com)
Two Small Farms
521 Harkins Slough Rd, Watsonville, CA 95076
Milk Pail Market
2585 California St, Mountain View, CA
Sigona's Farmers Market
2345 Middlefield Rd, Redwood City, CA
re: jsaimd
Sigona's for sure. Very friendly, family run place with top quality items. There is a little more to it than a produce stand though. It's a small place but they have a full array of food items, cheeses, meats, prepared items, frozen stuff, olive oils, etc.
Also, Roberts Markets in Portola Valley and Woodside are good.
Bianchini's Menlo Park on Alpine and the new store in San Carlos are good stores as well for all kinds of groceries and deli (note: San Carlos location opens on 4/29 and doesn't sell alcohol).
Roberts Market
3015 Woodside Rd, Woodside, CA
Roberts Market
4420 Alpine Rd, Portola Valley, CA
Bianchini's Market
3130 Alpine Rd, Portola Valley, CA
re: Shane Greenwood
Sigona's occasionally has really good specials on cheese -- I still fondly remember the great La Tur pig out from a couple of Decembers ago. Piazza's also has a good cheese selection. At least one visit to Dittmer's (German butcher) is required if you live in the area.
There's a variety of ethnic markets in the area -- when I visit my sister who lives in Palo Alto just over the Mountain View city limit, I try to fit in a stop at Crossroads World Market, which has an eclectic selection of mostly Eastern European and Middle Eastern foods.
Rworange (who else) has done quite a bit of exploration of the markets in that area -- here's a cool sounding Brazilian market in San Mateo: http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/418153
Dittmer's Gourmet Meats
400 San Antonio Rd Ste 4, Mountain View, CA 94040
Crossroads World Market
720 San Antonio Rd, Palo Alto, CA
Piazza's Fine Foods
3922 Middlefield Rd, Palo Alto, CA 94303
I second the recs for Rose Int'l Market (Persian) & Sigona's. We also have Trader Joe's in the area with one in Menlo Park & one located in the San Antonio shopping center in Mtn. View (3rd is under construction at Town & Country in Palo Alto).
Lastly, DH & I drop by sometimes at the farmer's market on California Street in Palo Alto on Sundays (9-1) after a Dish walk. Love the Bay Bread pastries.
Another vote in favor of the Mountain View farmers market. Lots of good stuff there.
I think the Los Altos farmers market opens the first Thursday in May. It's on 2nd St from 4-8 every Thursday. It's not on a par with the Mountain View market, but it's pretty nice, has some decent hot food and is a strong weekday afternoon alternative to the weekend markets, if that's convenient.
Hi toodie!
The area you describe is south peninsula, just for your info. Or silicon valley (the epicenter of silicon valley was the fairchild factory in MV). Mid peninsula is north of the towns you mention.
There's a limited number of local groceries. Renting shop space is expensive. There are more whole foods than you can trip over, and a couple of premium grocery store chains (Drager's, Andronicos, Molly Stone's) which might source more locally than WF, or not. Certainly friendly, but not low prices. But you didn't ask for premium grocieries.
But if you're up for local *markets*, not local produce, and you care about price, you have to check out the mexican markets which start in menlo park and go up through redwood city. Most convienient is Mi Rancho on Willow Road. Their selection is, charitably, past its prime but the prices are great. Mi Hacienda in a few blocks away on Menalto, a cleaner store with better quality, and higher prices. For example, chunk lite tuna in water is .89 @ mi rancho, @1.09 at safeway. Mexicans like low prices. In Redwood City there's a corner, 5th and Middlefields, and there are a thousand small markets within a 10 block radius. Chavez Market is the larger grocery chain that caters to the Latinos and has swallowed up a few independants, but is still not that many stores. Mexicans love their grilled meats, so the butchers sections of these shops are first-rate, although they have Mexican cuts that take getting used to. If your Spanish is good, you can probably get meat cut however you want - these places seem to cut meat in house.
I go back and forth whether I think places like that are good ecology. If they can source cheap, they probably spent fewer resources, right? Certainly no kiwis flown in. But no organic, no real knowledge of provenence.
There are asian groceries as well. The two in mountain view, the Ranch 99 chain, there's one in San Mateo I've gone to before.
I bet there's a wide variety starting in Sunnyvale and going south, I'm just not familiar with that area.
For small stores: The Milk Pail as mentioned, it's a good little market with a focus on local fresh produce. Country Sun on California Ave in PA. JJF in PA (good butcher). There's an interesting looking stand in Redwood City I've always wanted to check out on Middlefield near the Costco.
CSAs are huge here. No store space, reliable income for the farms. I would say half the people I know get CSA boxes. Search for that.
Everyone ends up with their favorite farmer's market. These markets are roughly organized where the train stations (caltrain) are. Each of them has their own strength. One reason I prefer MV is it's year round, and they have good bread. My sister prefers California Ave.
A lot of people do high-volume, non-perishable shopping at Costco, we have a fair number of them (Redwood City and Mountain View), then do their bread & veggies at the smaller markets. Arguably, for commodities, Costco is hugely efficient thus eco as well, and they treat their workers OK.
re: bbulkow
The stand across from the RWC Costco is Sigona's.
re: jsaimd
Just to reiterate, Sigona's is more than a stand. It looks like mainly a produce stand from the road because of the layout, but there is a whole market behind all that produce. It's small but has a lot more than a typical produce stand.
re: Shane Greenwood
And the RWC one has a lot more than the Stanford one. Sigona's also has a nice selection of chocolate, although the selection varies throughout the year. Good bulk food and good dried fruit. Prices for those items I think are reasonable.
re: bbulkow
Note: The Redwood City Costco store is closed (as of April 12th I believe). It will be torn down, rebuilt complete with a gas station - estimated reopening: November
So the closest one is Mountain View.
1000 N Rengstorff Ave, Mountain View, CA
4/27 thank you all for your great replies. You are great.
To clarify, my husband will be at Stanford for treatment as an inpatient for 6 weeks then for 100 days as an outpatient. Great as some of the recs sound, we may not be able to take advantage of them (prepared foods or cheese) He will be on a minimized-biotics diet, with strict cooking proceedures. No raw or undercooked foods, no takeout, no restaurant food. I'll be his 24/7 lackey/chauffeur/cook/executive assistant/maid and water-boiler. But I get a fancy name: GATEKEEPER. Maybe I should change my chowhound monniker... : -)
I hope to do a bit of chow sniffen myself and will be glad to verify these leads. I do love latin markets, and long-cooked meats will be one of our mainstays. That and "the frozen food aisle at Trader Joe's", as the social worker says.
Re:Too Small, do they deliver somehwere nearby?
It's going to be a challenge, but armed with your info, I feel less intimidated about finding good chow staples for us. I'll probably pop up with more questions as we go along. We should be there the majority of the summer. It might even be fun to meet some of you. You are a great bunch of food lovers.
Thanks. Again.and thanks to the hound who put together the printable list...
re: toodie jane
Please do sign up for the Silicon Valley chowdown group,
This covers the Peninsula and South Bay. Also, i just sent you an email.
re: toodie jane
You may like a trip to Webb Ranch Farms. It's close to the hospital and they have u-pick and fresh corn in the summer. My favorite produce is Sigona's and if you sign-up for their e-mail, you get great coupons. I even got a tour with tastings of their best in season fruit at the Redwood City store. They have great balsamic vinegars and olive oils too. They are building a Trader Joe's at Town and Country, (hopefully Kara's cupcakes are on your list) but it may not be open in time for your stay. There's also a Sur La Table if you need any equipment.
re: toodie jane
As it happens there is a Two Small Farms pick-up site right across from the hospital, and several on the other side of campus. I think half of Palo Alto gets their veggies from a CSA!
re: toodie jane
Here's the site for California Farmers Markets.You can search by city or county or region.
San Mateo County would be your first choice, then Santa Clara. Looking at the list for Santa Clara, there is a farmers market on Wednesday at Stanford. Saturday is the downtown Palo Alto Farmers market which is right off University Ave
I've read the next generation has taken over at Webb Ranch and has expanded the produce stand. As mentioned it is near Stanford
Milk Pail in Mountain View is probably your best bet for good affordable produce. It has a Berkeley Bowl / Moneterrey Market vibe. If you ever have a chance to do any traveling in all of this, those East Bay markets are worth checking out.
Maybe if you get a chance to do a little food shopping for yourself, in mid-June through the first week of July, stop by the CJ Olson farmstand for bing cherries, blenheim apricots and Santa Rosa plums. I know you are from an area with an embarrasement of riches in that type of fruit but still, these are the best I've ever had. Not cheap though but worth a splurge.
Again, don't know if you can do much driving at all, but a ride on 92 to Half Moon Bay is nice and there are some nice farmstands on the edge of town. Nothing organic or fancy, but a nice relatively near-by getaway.
re: rworange
thanks for the link to Olsen cherries. I snooped around the site and it looks good. My family has roots on the periphery of the old orchards. I cut cots as a teenager in Almaden, my great Aunt Clara Sculte was an orchardist in Campbell and Coyote (San Martin-Gilroy area) in the 1920-40's and my uncle Bill ran Day & Young fruit packers in Santa Clara from the 50's to the 70's. Fruit runs in my veins! Many a summer day spent ransacking cherry trees looking for 'doubles' .
It's good to know there are still places like this left with connections to the older generations. I'll visit it asap.
re: toodie jane
Debrah Olson and her brothers are really cool There is really just a token orchard in that area today. When I moved to that area a few decades back that road was almost all lined with cherry and apricot trees.
The Olson cherry stand almost went down a few years back, but Debra revitalized it by expanding the inventory and making it a year round stand by buying top quality from all over the area once the cherries in the Olson orchards are done.
When they are picking their own cherries there are still workers in the back of the store pulling cherries from the buckets and hand grading them. They have a tour of the orchard I think during the weekend they hold their cherry festival.
re: rworange
They evidently will have tours every Saturday during May. Great way for kids to learn about The Valley Of Heart's Delight.
Thanks for tip--greatly appreciated.


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Relegation and Player Movement in Super League
The more time passes, the more I feel like one of a small small number who think whatever the change to structure in Super League, return of promotion and relegation between the top tier and the semi-pro tier shouldn't be one of them.
As I've gone over the ideas that are thrown around, thinking about journo Andy Wilson's preferred option of a two ten-team tier Super League is the only way I see this as a reasonable option – but there isn't enough money for a 14 team Super League, so a 20 team Super League wouldn't really advance things from what I can see. Before something like that could be considered the clubs and the RFL would have to do a lot to raise revenues and would need to think harder about sharing them too.
Here, I'm going to propose another reason why I feel promotion and relegation is of little benefit. I think there is only a limited number of players to go around. This is becoming even more the case now we're seeing an overall 'trade deficit' in playing talent between the Super League and the NRL. Even before this switch around in player trading, I feel the issue I'm going to highlight was seen.
I reckon clubs that go down see the bulk of their important players move on to stay in Super League, and the clubs that come up sign players available from other Super League clubs. I write this introduction before I've really done my research, and I won't be ashamed if my assertion is proved wrong. Sometimes (often I'm sure!) that happens.
Largely using the brilliant Rugby League Project database as my source, with a bit of wider internet clarification when I feel its needed, I'll be going through the rosters of clubs that have either left or entered Super League in the recent past and will consider what the stories of players who played in more than 50% of their Super League games in that relegation season or that year after promotion. An exception will be the Catalan Dragons, whose entry to Super League I wont be looking at in the same detail because of the limited numbers of French representation before their entry - though if I do find some examples to support my argument I might throw them in if I need to save face! I'm also not going through the Salford and Crusaders entry when the league expanded in 2014 – as the league had more teams, there were no teams leaving to take players from.
Having looked into it a bit more, you could almost interpret things two ways depending on your starting position. There are many who want a return for promotion and relegation and don't know why. There are others who come from a bias of supporting the lower levels and so want that purpose to their clubs promotion brings. Broadcasters probably want those extra few meaningful games relegation might bring to the top league too. These people will (particularly the middle ones, exemplified by journo Gareth Walker) see that promoted clubs have often brought a number of the players that got them up with them. That is surely a good thing in favour of promotion being brought back. It also goes against the assertion I made above – some new players were getting a go in Super League and there was an avenue for players to reach the top level without needing to be signed by an incumbent club, which isn't a frequent occurrence.
The other way is to look what happens when clubs go down. The core of that season's squad was lost in the majority of cases. Ok, that squad can't have been up to much as they got the team relegated, or the wooden spoon in Crusaders' case, but some of them must have been good enough as nearly 40% of players got a new gig in Super League and a decent number found their way on to NRL squads the following year too. This meant, in the majority of cases, the core of the side needed to be totally rebuilt – almost four times as many players that played 50% of games were no longer on the squad the year after, only 22% were.
Promoted teams (including those promoted as part of league expansion):
Clearly the teams involved in geographic or numerical league expansion had good retention and a lot less players were brought in from Super League clubs for the season – this indicates that these teams had longer to plan their promotions as these were mapped out in advance. Other clubs promoted via the league or a promotion final had much less time to plan for life in Super League. Over two fifths of players who appeared in 50% of the promoted teams games were retained from the previous seasons squad, which is a decent number and higher than I expected. A third of these players however were picked up from other Super League clubs for the new season in the top level.
As noted above, these numbers don't overwhelmingly support my suggestion that there isn't much talent regeneration in Super League from promotion and relegation, and that the system just brings instability. They don't show the opposite either – most teams are made up as much by players who were in Super League or on NRL rosters in the previous campaign as they are by retained players from the NL1/Championship squads.
I would add that Huddersfield and Hull KR are the only teams not to have returned to a lower level at some point after promotion.
My hypothesis is more supported when relegation is looked at n more detail:
The Crusaders are an anomaly at one end of the scale, but their financial issues and special dispensation for clubs to sign their overseas players is an explanatory factor.
The 2002 Salford team are the other anomaly, taking a good number of players down with them, which helped them earn promotion in 2003 and bring plenty of these players back to Super League for 2004 (shown in above numbers). Every other relegated club saw as many or more players stay in Super League with other clubs, and saw as many again either return to Australia, retire or find deals at other lower level clubs. When you lose 78% of the core of your Super League squad on average for the next season, its hard to build or remain stable – Castleford and Salford became somewhat yo-yo teams, all the teams in the list other than Huddersfield have suffered or are suffering high profile financial difficulties, and its likely that only two will be featured in a 12 team top tier following restructure.
As a control to make sure Super League in general didn't see the same levels of player movement as promotion and relegation cause, I looked at Wigan and Wakefield, who has remained in Super League with varying fortunes over the period looked at. On average, these two sides retained 70% of players that appeared in 50% of one years games from season to season (Wigan 75%, Wakefield 65%).
I would note that in the closest relegation fights, Wakefield were inevitably the team that came on of this battle standing, so are a good comparison to make. Wigan have had successful and disappointing sides during the period. Both still managed to retain a much higher proportion of their squad year in year out and only saw on average three players per year leave to other Super League clubs, and six core players leave on average each year.
The averages show that teams that don't suffer relegation can maintain much greater on field stability. Wakefield have suffered some off-field instability and are a team that still need to progress in that area, but even with that issue, their playing squads haven't been seriously disrupted and that has helped them avoid relegation and earn the odd playoff spot along the way.
Outside the control sample, think of the consistency of the Bradford, Leeds and Warrington squads in their periods of success.
Yo-yo team Castleford and skin of their teeth Wakefield haven't been able to develop off the field how they might want to either because of promotion and relegation distractions. Yes, Cas have a strong youth development production line, but Wakefield are not as prominent in this area. Neither had made much progress in terms of stadium development. Salford, similarly don't have a stellar youth system and had to wait until well into licensing to finally move to a modern home. Halifax took a decade to finish the grand stand at their renovated stadium following relegation and weren't ever able to get themselves back to the big table or really achieve anything until they started planning long term.
In conclusion, I feel its clear that on field stability leads to better success on the field. Off the field, concentration on avoiding relegation or regaining promotion takes teams eye away from other matters that need addressing.
I'm not saying promotion and relegation is the big evil, but I just wanted to show the effect it has on players and a club's squad. It causes a great deal more movement and on-field instability than you get without the system, even if what replaced it hasn't necessarily proved to bring greater off field stability – I've spoken about this before and economic conditions have been a massive mitigating factor since 2008 that it would be unfair to not acknowledge, and also I feel licensing wasn't a strong enough move anyway (see Structure of Super League piece).
What I want fans of P&R to see is that it hasn't really helped anyone out. It didn't let clubs plan long term or get off-field matters sorted out. Fans of those clubs affected should realise players weren't coming in to play for the club, they were coming to play Super League, and they were gone when that was taken away. Do you want to see new players (and often coaches) trying to put together a new team year after year with no identity and continuity? Catalan Dragons, protected from relegation initially, have shown what that chance to plan long term affords a club – now they have better facilities, more French players coming through and regular playoff matches to compete in. They have a style and identity that has been allowed to develop and flourish.
Is one day at the top worth it? I'm not so sure. I followed a club that reached somewhat, and that was just for promotion between Championship 1 and the Championship, and all the good steady work was undone and the club went off the face of the RL world – now I have no local semi-pro team to go and watch because of the impossible dream of promotion.
A note on the proposed restructure for 2 x 12 > 3 x 8 set up, I don't think this will improve clubs retaining players and building long term – players will want to play in the top 8 division, so I think the player movement will increase mid-season as well as in the close season. Clubs losing out on top level revenues midway through a campaign when they are told they can no longer get decent crowds from hosting well supported clubs like Wigan, Leeds, Warrington, Saints and Hull FC will need to cut wage bills to survive. Combine this with top clubs wanting top players and top players wanting to play at successful well paying clubs and you will see mid-season deals of some sort. Stability won't be maintained. The issues I've talked about above won't be fixed. The proposal misses the point, but I've not had chance to fully map out my opinions on this yet outside the snipets I've raised on Twitter or other forums. I would say I don't like it, and will try and substantiate that some more at some point.