Argentina skipper Juan Martin Fernandez Lobbe says near enough is not good enough for the Pumas anymore, starting with the Wallabies in their Rugby Championship Test in Rosario on Saturday.

Lobbe says his team is no longer content with running close to the southern hemisphere big guns.

In their last three meetings with Australia the biggest margin has been six points – the Pumas pipped 14-13 in Perth last month.

“We were never happy to come close,” the veteran backrower said.

“We don’t like `close defeat’, that phrase.

“We don’t accept it, in our group, everyone wants to win.”

With Australia ranked fourth in the world and Argentina 10th, Lobbe said the odds were against his team getting their first ever win in the Rugby Championship.

But they would be throwing everything at the Wallabies to make it happen.

“This will be a very tough challenge,” he said.

“I’ve been saying this the whole week, Australia are a team that is used to winning and we are not.

“They have been world champions twice and they know what it takes to win a game.”

With their set piece dominating, the Pumas led world champions New Zealand early in the second half before falling away with the All Blacks eventual 33-15 victors.

Lobbe, who plays his club rugby alongside Matt Giteau and Jonny Wilkinson with Toulon in France, said his team needed to deliver an 80 minute performance.

He said his team was growing in confidence and experience playing regularly against three of the four top-ranked teams in the world.

“They are the world champions, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and if you want to be the best you need to play against the best, train with the best and learn from the best.”

He hoped to see Argentina have a team in the Super Rugby competition, which has been mooted, or more Pumas players join other teams in the competition.

“It’s a great thing, I just wish I was 10 years younger so I could play 10 years of Super Rugby.

“It’s where the best rugby has been played since we started playing rugby.”