Well that will do for starters, Rassie Erasmus

Against all the odds, the Rassie Erasmus era began with a morale-boosting 23-13 victory for Munster over a much-fancied Scarlets side in West Wales.

The new director of rugby saw his debut season at the helm get underway with neither a bang nor whimper and without a performance that could point definitively to the brave new world envisioned by the incoming South African boss.

Yet in the Llanelli drizzle, Munster laid down a significant marker that the good times just might be on the horizon.