Munster pack's scrum progress a pleasing factor for Jeremy Loughman 

STRONGMAN: Jeremy Loughman during Munster Rugby squad training. Picture:  David Fitzgerald/Sportsfile

A losing bonus point was not the only positive for Munster to take home after the narrow Champions Cup pool defeat at Toulon, particularly with another heavyweight French pack rumbling over the horizon this Saturday.

After a month of set-piece woes, Munster’s scrum turned a corner last Sunday at the most unlikely of locations, Stade Felix Mayol.