Peter Jackson: dispiriting weekend damages Euro vision

What's the point of the top competition now, the performance of the round and a strange fixture in Italy

CANDLE IN THE WIND: BT Sports presenter Craig Doyle is presented with a birthday cake by Brian O’Driscoll at the Aviva Stadium. INPHO/Dan Sheridan

What's the point? 

A disturbing weekend for the so-called Champions’ Cup provokes a rhetorical question which would have been unthinkable in days of yore: What’s the point?