Vital that we reset the attacking mindset while the British and Irish Lions are in Australia WITH the British and Irish Lions here, rugby's in the limelight. After a relatively tedious international 2012 season in Australia, there is an expectation the game will get the spark it needs to compete strongly with league, AFL and soccer. Ground has been lost in that battle. Even nailed-on rugby fans were looking for places to hide last year. As one self-confessed devotee observed, what he looked forward to most in Wallaby games was fulltime. Let's hope by the July 6 Third Test, nobody will want time to sound on a series that can demonstrate all things good about the code. Naturally that includes a bit of byplay, and Sir Clive Woodward has kicked off in great style. Apparently, Clive took offence at the Force's decision to play an under-strength team against the Lions. He must be joshing. After all, this is a man who once brought an England side to Australia, minus about 200 of his first-choice players. The team ended up on the wrong end of a 76-nil scoreline against the Wallabies, but I reckon Rod Macqueen understood it was not England's responsibility to ensure Australia got a solid led-in to the Tri-Nations championship. If Woodward were coaching his old club Leicester, and they were set to play a Wallaby touring side on the Wednesday, followed by a European Cup game on the Saturday, I'm guessing the very best of the Tigers mightn't find themselves called up for mid-week work. Clive has a knighthood and a Rugby World Cup wrapped in his swag, but it does not mean we have to take him seriously. So the next month promises much on and off-field fun, and should those expectations be fulfilled, it's vital we don't sit on our hands wondering how best to congratulate ourselves. The reality is that too often in the game that takes place between the white lines, the fan is being ripped off by a lack of action. Compare the amount of downtime in 80 minutes of rugby against that in the other codes and we win that unwanted trophy hands down. To illustrate the point, you needed only watch two Super 15 games last weekend. Both matches featured some high-quality play, but there was the potential for so much more. As a visual exercise, rugby becomes a much more enjoyable pastime if you see the odd pass or two. In Friday night's encounter between the Crusaders and Waratahs, the last pass of the match was thrown 74 minutes and seven seconds into the match. The ball did not move between one set of hands to another in the final six minutes. In that time, it was a series of scrum reset after scrum reset, and not once was the game clock stopped while the referee and the packs tried to get themselves in synch. In the Reds-Rebels game, the clock in the first half read 29 minutes and 26 seconds. The most recent pass had been thrown at the 22 minutes and 32 second mark. You guessed it - a series of scrum resets. I'm all for ensuring safety and getting scrums right, but why can't rugby be like AFL and when the ball is not in play, stop the clock. The ball is definitely not in play while referees are debating with props whose elbow should be where and when. Give the fans 80 minutes of action, not 40. The Lions guarantee a month of brilliant craic between fans. Let's hope players and refs also come to play.