What was the reason why Butler was on the bench for 10 mins (start of 2nd qtr)? The only thing I can think of is he was dragged for Laird getting off the leash across their HB line in the first qtr?
Based on my own opinions after watching a replay a lot of times, I thought Butler had a weird game. He seemed to lack a lot of game awareness on the day. I thought he was hesitant in a lot of situations where normally he would have just gone straight in. I think he gave away a 50m penalty in the last quarter that cost us a goal simply by running to close to the player with the mark, there was that poor holding the ball where he just kept running through the middle of the ground and decided to bounce right when two Crows players were about to collar him, and there was also a bit of play late in the last qtr where he looked like he thought he was Neymar and was about to start dribbling the ball with his feet while again a couple of Crows were waiting to pounce.
I didn't realise he spent that much time on the bench after the 1st quarter, but maybe he copped a head knock early in the game and struggled with it from there.