Look, I'm one of Lonie's biggest supporters but even I can see it wasnt really a contest with the 3 smalls to get dropped, and to be honest, when Gresh comes back I hope he goes to a permanent small forward with a few runs through the guts role and replaces Lonie. My young bloke will be shattered but honestly it's best for the team balance imo.The main job of a small forward is to score and to apply pressure.
Butler - even if he is kicking behinds - is getting shots on goals and is getting better tackle/pressure numbers than Lonie.
Realistically, both could have been dropped but there was no one to bring in to replace them.
But Lonie isn't hard done by being omitted after kicking 1 behind in 3 games.