INJURED Morton star Lewis Strapp has opened up on the struggles of his long road to recovery and race against time to get one final appearance at Cappielow.

The 23-year-old revealed in the Tele last week how he is set to leave Morton at the end of the season after being told that he is no longer in Cappielow chief Dougie Imrie’s plans.

Now Strapp has lifted the lid on the trials and tribulations he has experienced from the unusual injury he sustained to his kneecap in the Scottish Cup defeat to Celtic back in January.

Now finally back in training, he believes that he is seeing the light at the end of a very long and dark tunnel.

He told the Tele: “You try to compare yourself to people who’ve had ACL injuries and other knee injuries like that.

“You try to compare yourself to what their rehab is and set yourself little milestones and to be honest it couldn’t be any further from what the injury actually is.

“I think my recovery, thankfully, is a lot more straightforward.

"But you’re trying to speak to people about it and see how they’ve found coming back from an injury. But it’s an injury that's new to a lot of people.

“How many people can say that they’ve got an injury like this to their kneecap?

“If you’re researching those types of knee injuries and their rehab then you’ve got countless, and monotonous options, whereas with my knee then there’s next to nothing, but I think I’m seeing the light at the end of the tunnel now I'm back in training.

“It’s more about getting the movement back into it and getting the muscle back into my leg because you don’t realise how much you lose by sitting doing nothing.

“I need to make sure that my hamstrings and calves are okay because they all tighten up too. Then hopefully it’s back to running which I’m not far away from. I think six weeks is the sort of timeframe I'm looking at now."

As he begins to look to the future Strapp is keen to stress his gratitude to the club and staff that helped him get to where he is today.,

After progressing through the academy to make over 150 first team appearances, the Ton kid admits he’s been in dreamland since making his debut back in 2016.

He said: “I have gone right through the ranks and enjoyed every single minute of it.

“It all sounds very cliche, but I came to the club as a kid and I'm now leaving as a man having learned all of my football here. And it’s not leaving for bigger and better, it’s leaving for a new challenge.

“Having come right through and then making over 150 appearances in that time is brilliant, I never thought I'd get one appearance let alone the amount I have and I'm grateful for the platform I've been given.”