Pumas captain Juan Martin Fernandez Lobbe hopes young Argentines gravitate to Super Rugby ARGENTINA superstar Juan Martin Fernandez Lobbe says he would advise young Pumas players sign up with Australian sides over European clubs in coming years, and regrets he didn't have the chance to play his entire career in Super Rugby. Lobbe's comments came as Wallabies coach Ewen McKenzie said stars emerging for Argentina in the Rugby Championship are an "untapped resource" for NSW Waratahs, Queensland Reds, the Brumbies, Melbourne Rebels and Western Force to recruit as foreign players. "This is the shopfront, the team is playing top level rugby regularly and their players are good players, people are figuring out who they are," McKenzie said. I think it is a bit of an untapped resource. All I can say now people are only getting more and more familiar with Argentinian rugby, and as a result those things will tend to open up. Teams have the capacity to sign foreign players, but they've mainly been signing South Africans really. It might shift a little bit. To be honest there are a couple of young guys there who a couple of teams have had a look at and are interested in, so there could be a shift as young guys come on line here, that they don't go to Europe and maybe join a Super team instead. The plans of SANZAR are to introduce an Argentinian franchise in Super Rugby after 2016, but prior to that and even beyond it (given limits on squad sizes), there would still be scope for Australian sides to sign up a tough prop or lock or even a sharp goal-kicking back like Juan Martin Hernandez. Lobbe, the Pumas skipper who plays for superstar French team Toulon, said Argentina's addition to Super Rugby would be "a great thing." "It's where the best rugby has been played since we started playing rugby," Lobbe said. Fernandez Lobbe laments the fact he's never had a Super Rugby stint. 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. Asked if he felt it would be a good thing for Argentinian players to sign with Australian sides in the next few seasons, Lobbe said: "What has happened with our young prop (Matias Diaz - Hurricanes) and young second rower (Manuel Carizza - Stormers), they are going there. I think it's great. "I would like to be 10 years younger and have the opportunity to go and enjoy the culture and the way the feel rugby," Lobbe said. I have had the chance to play amongst a few Southern Hemisphere players and I just love the way the enjoy rugby and the way everything seems easy for them. Would you encourage players to choose Southern Hemisphere over Europe? "You would see me there,"Lobbe replied. Lobbe is off contract next year but a Super side would have to find north of $600,000 to prise the No.8, who is regarded as one of the world's best forwards, away from Toulon. Lobbe's omission from the 2012 IRB World Player of the Year nominations was widely scorned. Pumas players have traditionally played in Europe but their addition to Rugby Championship could see a general shift in player alignment to Super Rugby, given French clubs don't get to see them for potentially the first four months of competition. "Ideally they have a team in Super Rugby, and that works," McKenzie said. I think the fact that now we are saying Argentina playing more games, these guys like Alabcete, Hernandez, it is a viable option for these guys to look at Super Rugby as an option because it lines up with their season. Whereas before it hasn't, because they were contracted in France and it suited the French clubs they were not playing at this time of year. Now the French clubs will say, oh, you're not available until December. I think could be a shift that way (toward Super Rugby). I looked at it last year for the Reds. It's not like we haven't looked at it. There is still a bit of a transition from Europe. Some of those guys like Hernadnez and Lobbe and Contepomi are heavily contracted in Europe and played their whole careers there. It'll be more the younger generation guys coming through.