Possible Clues:

• Lowest in stature
• Most vertically challenged
• most direct
• Like the losing straw
• The longest way round can often be the ........ way home
• It's never very long for one to get shot around the rest
• 'The longest way round is the ... way home' (proverb)
• The longest way round may be the ... way home
• Like the best route from A to B
• Prop finally dropped before big match -- least effective as line-out jumper?