His comments after the bpool game were more towards us not taking our chances rather than the team not creating/playing to the right standard. Second half anyway. He may just see it as an off day for our finishing & try again but have words about us starting with more tempo. Reckon Nolan will be starting.
Be pleasantly suprised if he went for Ben Arfa in Nolans position, but he has nothing solid to go off in terms of how we'd play. Norm bases his ideas on what hes seen to be successful previously, so id expect it more if hed tried it towards the end of a game first. Who knows though, he hasnt had Ben Arfas to use before.
I expect Smith will make way for Tiote though. Think Williamson, Simpson, hall all were given debut starts, so he seems to have more faith in changing defensive players.