Apologies if this has been done but I can't see it anywhere. Which clubs have so far published their squad numbers? Thought it might start to give some pointers as to how things will pan out in 2016

This is Wakefield's squad for 2016 (so far - can't see many more additions coming in TBH)



1 Ben Jones Bishop

2 Tom Johnstone

3 Bill Tupou

4 Ashley Gibson

5 Richard Owen

6 Jacob Miller

7 Liam Finn

8 Nick Scruton

9 Scott Moore

10 Anthony England

11 Mikael Simon

12 Danny Kirmond

13 Anthony Tupou

14 Reece Lyne

15 Jordan Tansey

16 Tinirau Arona

17 Matty Ashurst

18 Joe Arundel

19 Jonny Molloy

20 Mikey Sio

21 Max Jowitt

22 Jordan Crowther

23 Scott Anderson

24 Stuart Howarth

25 Craig Hall

26 Chris Annakin

27 Anthony Walker

28 Andy Yates

29 Sean Morris

30 Ben Shulver

Here is Hull FC's - strongest line up probably isn't the numbers 1-17.



1. Jamie Shaul

2. Mahe Fonua

3. Carlos Tuimavave

4. Jack Logan

5. Fetuli Talanoa

6. Leon Pryce

7. Marc Sneyd

8. Scott Taylor

9. Danny Houghton

10. Liam Watts

11. Gareth Ellis

12. Mark Minichiello

13. Jordan Abdull

14. Iafeta Palea’aesina

15. Chris Green

16. Jordan Thompson

17. Dean Hadley

18. The Hull FC Faithful

19. Steve Michaels

20. Curtis Naughton

21. Sika Manu

22. Josh Bowden

23. Frank Pritchard

24. Kirk Yeaman

25. Jansin Turgut

26. Jez Litten

27. Jack Downs

28. Brad Fash

29. Harry Tyson-Wilson

30. Danny Washbrook

31. Callum Lancaster

32. Reece Dean

33. Masimbaashe Matongo

34. Richard Whiting

35. Ross Osborne

A few surprises here:

1. Kurt Gidley

2. Tom Lineham

3. Rhys Evans

4. Ryan Atkins

5. Matty Russell

6. Stefan Ratchford

7. Chris Sandow

8. Chris Hill

9. Daryl Clark

10. Ashton Sims

11. Ben Currie

12. Jack Hughes

13. Ben Westwood

14. Joe Westerman

15. Mitchell Dodds

16. Brad Dwyer

17. James Laithwaite

18. George King

19. Ben Harrison

20. Kevin Penny

21. Ben Evans

22. Gene Ormsby

23. Gary Wheeler

24. Toby King

25. Joe Philbin

26. Declan Patton

27. Sam Wilde

28. Jack Johnson

29. Benjamin Julien

30. Harvey Livett

31. Morgan Smith

I'm biased but I really like the Hull squad. Plenty of depth, good blend of youth and experience. The pack in particular looks very strong.



With a top coach in charge I would be confident of a top 4 finish, but I still have serious doubts about Radford. Should be safely in the 8 though.

1 Hardaker,

2 Briscoe,

3 Watkins,

4 Moon,

5 Hall,

6 McGuire,

7 Burrow,

8 Galloway,

9 Falloon,

10 Singleton,

11 JJB,

12 Ablett,

13 Ward,

14 Sutcliffe,

15 Delaney,

16 Achurch,

17 Cuthbertson,

18 Garbutt,

19 Mullally,

20 Keinhorst,

21 Walters,

22 Handley,

23 Mulhern

24 Baldwinson,

25 Lilley,

26 Golding.



Sounds like our squad isn't finished yet though and the above includes Mulhern who's rumoured to be going to hull KR on loan and also Achurch who is also rumoured to be on the outer.



In comings we are looking at Adam OBrien, Bradford hooker.

Widnes 2016



1 Rhys Hanbury - FB, HB

2 Corey Thompson - WG, FB

3 Chris Bridge - CE, HB

4 Charly Runciman - CE, SR

5 Patrick Ah Van - WG, CE, FB

6 Kevin Brown (c) - FE, LF

7 Joe Mellor - HB

8 Eamon O'Carroll - PR

9 Lloyd White - HK, FE

10 Manase Manuokafoa - PR, SR

11 Danny Galea - SR, LF

12 Danny Tickle (vc) - SR

13 Hep Cahill - LF, PR

14 Chris Dean - CE, SR

15 Setaimata Sa - SR, CE

16 Paddy Flynn - WG

17 Stefan Marsh - CE

18 Gil Dudson - PR

19 Macgraff Leuluai - SR, PR

20 Alex Gerrard - SR

21 Tom Gilmore - FE

22 Matt Whitley - SR, LF

23 Ted Chapelhow - PR

24 Jay Chapelhow - PR

25 Ed Chamberlain - CE, FB, WG

26 Ryan Ince - WG, CE, FB

27 Almer Salvilla - HK

28 Brad Walker - LF

29 Oliver Ashall - WG, CE

30 Danny Craven - FB, HB

31 Ben Kavanagh - PR

32

33 Aaron Heremaia - HK, HB

How many years have Hull fans been saying this? FWIW I think you'll just scrape 8th spot (again).

Not many, seen as we've been crap for 7/8 seasons. Next season is the best squad we've assembled for some time, so it's expected that we'd be optimistic of a better finish than 2015. But, I reckon you're just trolling anyway. Scraping 8th would be better than scraping through in the £1m game.

Squad numbers not been announced yet but here's Cas's likely selection:



1. Luke Dorn

2. Denny Solomona

3. Michael Shenton

4. Jake Webster

5. Joel Monaghan

6. Ben Roberts

7. Luke Gale

8. Andy Lynch

9. Adam Milner

10. Grant Millington

11. Oliver Holmes

12. Matt Cook

13. Nathan Massey

14. Lee Jewitt

15. Ryan Boyle

16. Junior Moors

17. Ben Crooks

18. Frankie Mariano

19. Paul McShane

20. Jy Hitchcox

21. Ryan Hampshire

22. Gadwin Springer

23. Mike McMeeken

24. Greg Minikin

25. Will Maher

26. Tom Holmes

27. Brandon Westerman

28. Ashley Robson

29. Kieran Gill

I'm not making any bold claims. I think we'll probably finish 6th, behind the usual suspects with Cas and Catalans rounding out the 8. Last year I said 7th, and thats where we finished.



I'm saying that I think it's a talented group of playes but will be let down by poor coaching and the off field set up in general. If that was the Leeds squad I think it would be challenging for trophies.

Plenty of talent in Hull's squad but I have a lot of question marks hanging over certain areas. Not sure a spine of Shaul, Pryce and Sneyd is good enough to challenge for honours. The outside backs are mainly unproven as well. Certainly a good pack though, but a few too many of the big names are the wrong side of 30. Will be interesting to see how they go.

If Catalans bring in 35 year old Willie Mason as rumoured they will have 13 overseas players on their books next year by my reckoning.

are they allowed more overseas player quota spots that other sl teams? if so why, they have been in sl long enough now

I assume your counting English players as overseas in that 13? Because to my count they have 8 non fed players, the 7 they're allowed and Richards whose exempt because of his time at Wigan. Same as Hull, who have Feka exempt and 7.



They're rumoured to be looking to offload Tonga and Sigismeau (the latter of which is linked with Saints) and Mason in - I'd say that'd all tie together.