Based on my observations from knowing Downes since I was 6 years old, I would assume that he will wait until the very last possible moment to announce his contract so every recruiter who has tried to court him for their team (apparently that's every single team in the sim, according to him) has to wait for his decision before they know to re-sign their current SF or PF or sign him to replace them. Typical scumbag Downes.
Code: Colts Hammerheads Hurricanes Moustaches Mustangs Ocelots Pandas Parrots Polar Bears Sabres Seahawks Tigers 1 BB Burger Alistair Son Chad Dyer Dexter Astele Matt James Samuel Yates Regan Hutchinson Rob Cribb Os du Toit Truman Lee 2 Dirk Diggler Johnny Ridd Steve Cambridge AJ O'Neill Andrew James Cap'n Cock Henry Daman Marquis Deen Sam Bakkum 3 Samuel Vimes Reagan Wheelson LeBron Ames Aby Dforum Lucas Schaw Charlie Downes Bruce Force Clayton Evans Brett Hall 4 Shane Masters Chris Warrington Alex O'Driscoll Morgan Burridge Aaron Hunt Jake Howe Joshua Ritchie Ether Starris 5 Leumas Himann Raptor Vince Ivan Ryabovol Jono Chewie Tom DeLonge 6 Eliot Witters Benny Read Zac MacDonald SSD Dong 7 Jordan Logan Hurricanes look really good. Not playing to make up the numbers it seems.
Worst case, I'll just allocate. They'll suck but hopefully that'll force people to get others to sign/sign up.
Code: Colts Hammerheads Hurricanes Moustaches Mustangs Ocelots Pandas Parrots Polar Bears Sabres Seahawks Tigers 1 BB Burger Alistair Son Chad Dyer Dexter Astele Ben Manera Matt James Samuel Yates Regan Hutchinson Rob Cribb Os du Toit Truman Lee 2 Dirk Diggler Johnny Ridd Steve Cambridge AJ O'Neill Jon Anraad Andrew James Cap'n Cock Henry Daman Marquis Deen James Hughes Sam Bakkum 3 Samuel Vimes Reagan Wheelson LeBron Ames Aby Dforum Luke Tyson Lucas Schaw Charlie Downes Bruce Force Clayton Evans Brett Hall 4 Shane Masters Chris Warrington Alex O'Driscoll Morgan Burridge Niru Gurupur Aaron Hunt Jake Howe Joshua Ritchie Ether Starris 5 JK Wivillian Ali Farhat Leumas Himann Raptor Vince Damien Taylor Ivan Ryabovol Jono Chewie Tom DeLonge 6 Eliot Witters Benny Read Please Reframe Zac MacDonald SSD Dong Bill Kirk 7 Jordan Logan Dan Wayne Eddie Morris 8 Wes Welker Come on you big goobers. At least get some starters together.
They'll be back eventually. If not they'll be your allocated players (although they won't be as good) until then. I wonder if he'll sign I'm gonna finish the provincial shit over the next couple of days (hopefully), so I'm gonna say you've got until this time next week before I start pre-season. There'll be 3 pre-season rounds to trial shit and work out how your rookies go/how any allocated players are.