Vickerman Targets Wallabies Comeback

Blues second-row Dan Vickerman will return to Australia next year to attempt an international comeback.

Vickerman, who led Cambridge to victory over Oxford in December, has signed a three year deal with the Wallabies’, starting in 2011. He will play for the Waratahs in the Super 14, where he has been training for the past two months.

The news of a potential dramatic return for the 54-Test lock was greeted as a “massive boost” by Aussi rag the Sydney Morning Herald.

Vickerman, who is going into the final year of his Land Economy course at Eddies, said: “It was a big decision to leave Australia in 2008 but I wouldn’t change a thing,”

“Rugby has given me the opportunity to play and study abroad but next year is the right time to come back.

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Vickerman on his Wallabies’ return.

“I’ve been in communication with the coaching staff at the Waratahs and the Wallabies for a while now and collectively we’re all on the same page in terms of where we want to be at and what we want to accomplish.

“I know there’s a lot of hard work to be done over the next 12 months to push for a place in the World Cup squad but that’s what I’m focusing on and that’s what I want to achieve.”

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The 2009 Varsity match, in which Vickerman led the light blues to glory.