I think this is right for the first 20 or so, but I need some help with the young players who will fill the squad. Please add or amend (I'm bound to have forgotten someone). I've gone with what I suspect will be the first 17, not necessarily my choice...

1. Dufty
2. Thewlis
3. Tai
4. King
5. Ashton
6. Williams
7. Drinkwater
8. Musgrove
9. Walker
10. Vaughan
11. Fitzgibbon
12. Currie
13. Nicholson

14. Dwyer
15. Philbin
16. Kasiano
17. Harrison

18. Wrench
19. Ratchford
20. Crowther
21. Hayes
22. Russell
23. Dudson
24. Bullock
25. Thomas
26. Dean
27. Bruines
28. Green (thanks Smiffy)

Good to see it all put together. Lucas Green might be included. I'd like to see a bit more of Rodrick Tai before I'd hand him a shirt with 3 on it. Just being cautious after what little I have seen.

He's scored 14 tries in 34 games in the Queensland Cup. That'll do me.

Let's hope he's fine and he obviously has some pace. Just watched him once, really closely, playing for PNG & he was very very quiet. If he plays like that every game he's not the boy. By the way ... I hope he's a cracking player & just needs a rocket up his backside.

Someone as posted on Facebook that Tai as picked up a knee injury, nothing about how serious it is.

On the numbering I’d swap Kasiano with Bullock, and only because I’m not overly happy about todays news I’d give Ratchford the 14 shirt and put Dwyer as a squad number

Wrench should have shirt 3 or 4. I'm not particularly bothered which of the two you've named misses out.

We should get a big year (start of season anyway) out of Philbin as his contract is up end of 2024.

Makes me wonder whether Adam Holroyd, Jack Derbyshire, Josh Lynch, Tom Whitehead, Jake Thewlis, Bobby Shingler, Jamie Reddecliff and Aiden Doolan fit in with future plans.

Doolan and Derbyshire have left the club.

...Doolan leaving (has he gone to Aus or did I make that up) I think and Holroyd rumoured on loan to Widnes?

The rest I believe all still with the club. Jake Thewlis on the Academy tour if Australia and picked up reserves player of the year this year.

I’m still not 100% we’ll see King in P&B, as so I think wrench is Wire 4.
King will have a squad number if he isn’t shipped out before they get announced. (KR)

I also think Ratchford will keep his starting shirt, he was ever present last season and prolific with his boot.

Dudson will be granted a free transfer to Widnes if they can agree playing terms.

Ground breaking news, that. You must have a good source.

Just Quasimodo’s back on this.

What has happened to the Bullock/Partington swap ?