Guthrie was ok yesterday, stuck some good tackles but efficiency was low @54% and he's still not able to impact stoppages enough as a midfielder.
Usually an effective disposal is due to the next possession being uncontested.
An example - Hawks in their heyday were a high kicking efficiency team that ended up like this due to kicking to free players and taking up field position. They were an uncontested play-style team.
Geelong at the moment are a contested team and back their players to win contests.
Therefore, sometimes efficiency is a measure that needs to be examined carefully and case by case for each possession.
When you kick to a contest and for whatever reason that contest is lost, then the original players pass is considered inefficient.
As an example, quite a few midfielders would have had ineffective possessions due to passes to a forward - who failed to mark the ball due to defenders being all over them - however created a contest and the ball subsequently ended up in our forward line through opposition possession, fumbles, tackles, spoils or 1% for a reset of play. Overall, it was ineffective for the original player, yet effective for the team in terms of field position.
As a slight aside, there was a moment in the game where Selwood kicked it straight to the opposition while streaming into our 50. The commentators immediately noted that he expected his forwards to a different spot than they did (he probably expected them to move as per their training drills, but they just didn’t for whatever reason).
A poor kick or handpass that is a turnover is obviously an inefficient disposal, however sometimes it is simply not the original passers fault that it was a turnover.