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.

Yes English players included.

Tonga
Pomeroy
Carney
Anderson
Taylor
Aiton
Myler
Richards
Broughton
Stewart
Horo
Inu
Mason

Heard Pomeroy might be going. But still leaves little room for French opportunities.

You have included two players who aren't contracted to the club, one player who is not in the first-team squad for the coming season and bizarrely counted two Englishmen as "overseas players".

English players arent overseas players to a French club?

I said originally should Mason sign it would be 13. Im not aware of the contractual or first team status of the other players you refer to but happy to be corrected. The point would remain the same if you remove two or three- not enough opportunities for French players to progress to the first team of the sole French SL club.

No. Just as French players aren't overseas for English clubs. Saints have Nzongou and Fages, for example.

Currently, they have Inu, Carney, Tonga, Taylor, Aiton, Horo, Stewart are [icurrently[/i their overseas players. They also have Richards whose exempt due to his time at Wigan.

If they sign Mason, presumedly Tonga goes.

Catalans are a Super League club trying to win the competition, not some novelty development team for French players. They have no more obligation to provide opportunities for French players than Warrington, for example, have to provide opportunities for Warrington-born players.

Catalans' junior set-up is better than probably any British team currently, possibly apart from Wigan and St Helens. They produce a huge number of players and it's sad when people complain about them having the same number of overseas players as other clubs. This isn't Paris St-Germain and people need to get over it. Also remember that this is a top 8 system with relegation, no teams are going to fill their squads with junior players and not sign anybody else.

Fair enough- your saying that the English boys arent 'overseas' in relation to the quota. I was referring to 'overseas' by its definition. So going by your list and adding Myler and Broughton- that leaves just 7 spots open for French players.

Add in Naughton and Ellis on top of the 8 non fed players hull fc have and there's only 7 spots available for local Hull lads?

Far more French lads are being picked up by other SL clubs and the NRL which was almost nonexistent 15 years ago!

Some poor excuses going round here as to why it's ok that Catalans may run with as many as 13 'non French' players next year.

Whichever way it's dressed up that's appalling and surely isn't what the club is in superleague for?! I have no issue with them having 5 or 6 non French players but 13 is taking the Mick and is going to stifle the development of the French lads, there's no two ways about it.

Poor form.

Please read whats been written. There is no chance they will be running with 13 non french players. Even accepting MadDoggs English is foreign logic, theyre on 10 for next year.

Wigan had 9 "foreign to Wigan" players in their squad this year - is that also appalling?

Catalans are in SL to compete, nothing more.

A huge part of the rationale behind introducing a French club to the competition right from the outset (and the reintroduction of one after the disaster that was Paris, not to mention the calls for a second one based in Toulouse) was that it would improve the French player pool and enable them to be more competitive on an international level, rather than playing in their part-time domestic competition.

Otherwise, why are the Dragons in SL and not playing in Le Championnat?

Are we now accepting that has failed, and their presence is basically to provide fans with a jolly weekend away once or twice a year?

Thats a fair summary. This is a big season for Shaul. With Rankin gone full back is his. We know he's good under a high ball and an excellent broken field runner, but he needs to add a couple more strings to his bow now. Likewise Sneyd. He was ok last season, but he needs to find consistency.

In the backs, Logan is still learning, and Carlos/Fonua could be inspired signings or could flop, but they all have ability.

As for the guys over 30, I'm not that worried. Pryce, Ellis, Pritchard and Mini are imo the only key players that fall into this category. Ellis has question marks over him given his injury, Pryce could be a concern but will be ably covered by Abdull. I'm not worried about the others.