Jaco Taute enjoying Chris Farrell link-up at Munster

The season is its infancy but already there are positive signs that Jaco Taute and Chris Farrell are developing into a formidable centre partnership for Munster.

Admittedly the games against Benetton Treviso and the Toyota Cheetahs were one-sided affairs but Munster fans will hope for more of the same when the pair come up against the Ospreys at Liberty Stadium and Glasgow Warriors at Scotstoun over the next 10 days.

Nevertheless, Taute has maintained his impressive form of last season while Farrell’s more predictable game appears to suit him as against the play-it-as-it-comes approach of last year’s partner Francis Saili.