It has been a welcome sight, seeing Sean Morrison standing on the Cardiff City touchline ahead of recent matches.
He travelled with the squad to the South Wales derby defeat at Swansea City and has been kitted out in the New Balance gear at home matches since then, too. More than eight months have passed since the ex-Bluebirds skipper was helped off the pitch up at Barnsley on that bitterly cold February evening up in Yorkshire.
An ACL rupture was confirmed and surgery loomed. Now on the other side, Morrison, 31, has ramped up his road to recovery markedly in recent months. He has back running and even taking in some boxing classes with a private personal trainer in his spare time to get himself back to peak condition.