Has Rassie Erasmus hooked a Shark with bite?

Rassie Erasmus struck gold when he captured Jaco Taute on a short-term loan from the Stormers, but is it too much to expect Jean Deysel to make a similar impact during his limited time at Munster?

South African centre Taute, capped three times by the Springboks, arrived on a four-month deal between Super Rugby seasons to cover for the injured Francis Saili and Sam Arnold and proved such a hit, on and off the pitch, that Munster persuaded the IRFU he was a player worth bending their overseas player rules for in order to keep him until the end of the season.

So instead of leaving Cape Town this week for the Stormers’ round five fixture against the Sunwolves in Singapore on Saturday, Taute will be on the welcoming committee at Munster’s High Performance Centre at the University of Limerick this week when Erasmus’s latest South African loanee arrives.