From the Daily Telegraph (Australia)

Waratahs captain Phil Waugh has urged Australian rugby powerbrokers to “do all they can” to retain Daniel Vickerman as the outstanding Wallabies lock weighs up lucrative overseas offers for 2009.

Vickerman comes off contract with the ARU at the end of this year and is being pursued by clubs in Europe and Japan offering as much as R3.2m a year.

The Wallabies vice-captain is also still considering a plan to move to England to study economics and play football at Cambridge University.

But Waugh and NSW coach Ewen McKenzie said yesterday they hope Vickerman won’t be lost to Australian rugby while at the peak of his powers.

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