If there is any integrity in the system Gus will be an AA half back. This combined with his heroics in the GF make him indispensable. Hopefully he will retire as an all time great Demon.
I would think a ruckman will require longer to recover due to the load on the ankle because of his height and weight and the force required to spring in a ruck contest.
the most telling stat is that we have gone from first to seventeenth for pressure acts. That surely is a mental thing or fitness or fatigue or a combination.