Well doesn't that apply to every out of contract player that hasn't signed or come out in the press and said they are staying?
No.
It's the same flawed logic that compares David Mundy or Told Goldstein with Danger.
You can't compare A**** tier players with anybody else. The most high profile, greatest champion players of the day attract far more attention & scrutiny than others.
Danger is in company with players like Judd, Gaz, Buddy, Pendles & NVoldt not your Boaks, Goldsteins or Mundys.
Take NVoldt or Pendles, massive players sought heavily by the expansion teams. Big big offers, and huge pressure & public scrutiny on them the longer they left it. But they wanted to stay, so what did they do? They never said they were leaving it, or concentrating on their footy. They just got on with the business of staying and signing.
Some players want to stay and some want to go. Generally they behave differently, because of the pressure involved if you are on that pedestal.
Take dougie, he could announce he wanted to postpone negotiations to the end of the year and it would still never take hold in the media or public eye because he is not at that level. Ordinary supporters of all clubs don't care that much about dougie, but they do about Danger.
Who knows, maybe Danger will stay in the end and will get caught up in the momentum; but these days he's taking a lot of unnecessary heat, unnecessary if you planned to stay. Which is what Watson is talking about. Why put yourself through that? It's not like you'll get any more money out of it.