By James Standley

Vickery has not played since injuring his knee in April

Wasps are adopting a "wait and see" attitude over Phil Vickery's fitness ahead of Saturday's Guinness Premiership final against Leicester.

The England prop injured his knee in Wasps' win over Sale Sharks in April.

"He's doing some light training. It's still early days," admitted Wasps director of rugby Ian McGeechan.

Leicester will be missing Martin Castrogiovanni after shoulder surgery but fellow prop Julian White can play after a one-week ban for stamping.

Both teams are set to announce their teams for the final - which will be the last match of Wasps star Lawrence Dallaglio's career - on Friday.

Dallaglio, who has led the club to four English league titles and two Heineken Cups, is determined his imminent retirement does not overshadow Wasps' bid to win a first Premiership for three years.

"It's the same situation for me as for any other player - it's the last game of the season," he insisted.

"It doesn't feel any different. It might do in September, but certainly not at the moment.

"It's a club that won before I got here and a club that will win long after I'm gone."

Wasps stalwart Fraser Waters will also be making his final appearance but head coach Shaun Edwards said they would not let emotion cloud their approach to the game.

"One thing I don't think this club does is a great deal of sentimentality. What it does do is try and win big matches."

Saturday's encounter between Leicester and Wasps will be just the latest chapter in what has been the defining rivalry in English rugby union over recent years.

"Nine titles between us and four Heineken Cups - I think that says it all," said Dallaglio, who added he was sure it would be a "very tasty match".

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"Whatever we do we seem to come up against each other all the time. Every time there's a big match the usual suspects seem to come to the top and in the last 10 years it does seem to be Wasps and Leicester," he added.

"We know what to expect. They're the champions, let's not forget that, but we'll be trying to win a trophy we haven't won for a little while now."

Wasps and England second row Simon Shaw has no doubt the match will be a typically titanic encounter.

"It is very evenly matched - it always is. It will all be about who fronts up on the day," he told BBC Sport.

"We hope we've got enough in our armoury to cope with whatever's thrown at us but whenever you meet Leicester you have to raise your physical edge.

"That's where their strength is and we have to match that or better that in order to, hopefully, get a result."

Danny Cipriani will miss the final because of a serious ankle injury

Wasps will be without fly-half Danny Cipriani and wing Tom Voyce for the final after they were both injured in the semi-final win against Bath.

Shaw had words of comfort for Cipriani, who will miss the next six months as he recovers from the fracture dislocation of his right ankle he suffered against Bath.

Shaw and Dallaglio have both battled their way back to the top level after suffering similar injuries and the lock has no doubt 20-year-old Cipriani, who has lit up the English game this season, will return to his best form.

The 6ft 8in Shaw was injured in 1995, when the medical support was of a far lower standard than that available today.

"I didn't tell him 'you've got nothing to worry about', because he will have to work hard to recover from it, but there is now a greater level of medical back-up and better medical techniques," said Shaw.

"One of the great things in professional sports nowadays is your medical back-up. At any point you can ring someone up and they're there for you - especially here at Wasps - so he won't have anything to worry about on that front."