For me the kicking game is going to be the big thing we may miss. Gaskell has had a fabulous kicking game since he joined the team. It's been highly underrated but this guy, gets us out of our own half with every kick being in the opposition 20 or less, no matter where he kicks from. Also he finds the ground more often than most kickers I've seen this year and to be fair more often than any Saints player I've seen. And I include in that Long.
But fair is fair and Gaskell got his chance because of injury and disruption, so the same is true of his own injury, it gives someone else a chance to step up. But we don't need 2 exclusive running half backs, we need one at least to take some control of the kicking game with accuracy and length, which is a hard role to take on.
Would love to see the %'s on kicks going to hand and kicks finding the floor from the half backs in SL as I think Gaskell's would be quite high.