Jaguares flanker Pablo Matera is confident his side are on the right track as Super Rugby's governing body, SANZAAR, considers reducing the tournament from 18 teams to 16.
With speculation rife that one team from Australia and South Africa are facing the cut, 23-year-old Matera said he was unaware of developments but thinks that SANZAAR may look to remove teams who are not developing.
"Obviously this is the most competitive tournament in the world and I'm sure that if any team is not developing as well as SANZAAR wants I think then maybe they will have to leave the tournament," he said.
"We're ok at the moment," he added with a laugh.
The Jaguares virtually double as the Argentina national side and the transition between the two teams proved difficult for players last season as the Pumas struggled to build on the promise they showed in reaching the semi-finals at the 2015 World Cup.
A relatively small pool of players were used to fulfil commitments in Super Rugby for the Jaguares as well as international matches in June, the tough four-nation Rugby Championship and then a November tour of Japan and Europe.
Their exhaustion eventually showed.
"Last year it was a little bit complicated because we planned a very different strategy with Jaguares than with the Pumas," Matera said.
"I think now as we are in our second year we hopefully will be a little more experienced about it and are going to make the change from one team to the other quicker and adapt faster.
"Obviously it's different to playing with Jaguares than the Pumas, it's a different pressure and a different type of rugby too.
"The defences (in Super Rugby) are so good that if you don't play as fast as possible you don't get to ... have line breaks, that's why you risk a bit more because you need faster balls to have more chances," Matera said.
"When you play international rugby you're still looking to be fast but still a little bit slower with more strategy and not risking so much."
The Jaguares have made an excellent start to this year's Super Rugby campaign with wins against the Kings and Lions either side of a narrow loss to the Stormers in Cape Town.
Matera believes a kinder fixture list than last season, when he says they covered more air miles than any other team, could work in their favour.
"We're lucky this year with the fixtures; we don't have to go to Japan, we have a few more games playing at home so we have better fixtures than last year," Matera said.
"We still have to travel a lot but the tournament is like that and we want to be part of it so it's more or less the same for every team."
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