Australia coach Michael Cheika says Twickenham has started to feel like home

By Michael Kelleher

Image: Michael Cheika will be in familiar surroundings on Saturday

Australia head coach Michael Cheika has admitted his side feel at home at Twickenham after six games there in less than two years.

The Wallabies will play their seventh Test match since November 2014 at the home of English rugby union on Saturday, when they take on Argentina there in the Rugby Championship.

It will be the first ever Rugby Championship game to take place in Europe and Cheika says his side are happy to be playing in Twickenham once again.

"It is pretty unheard of for Australians to say they feel like Twickenham is a home ground but we had a run of five or six games in a row here last year," Cheika said.

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"It is always a fabulous venue. When we are playing England obviously it creates an atmosphere but even in the games last year when we didn't play England there was a good atmosphere.

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"I'm sure that will be the case in this game as well and we are really looking forward to it to be honest. It is a great place to play rugby so you wouldn't miss the opportunity if you had the chance."

Highlights of the Rugby Championship clash between South Africa and Australia from Pretoria.

Cheika will be forced into making at least one change in the back row after Sean McMahon suffered an ankle injury in the loss to South Africa in Pretoria and was sent home.

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McMahon, nominally a flanker, came into the side at number eight for the 18-10 defeat at Loftus Versfeld on Saturday in place of the injured David Pocock.

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In contention to replace him at number eight are Lopeti Timani, who is already in the squad, and Leroy Houston, who is not, but is already in England, playing on loan from the Queensland Reds for Bath.

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