Docker Morabito confident of return Fremantle midfielder Anthony Morabito says he is confident of making a return. Fremantle midfielder Anthony Morabito says he is confident of making a return to full training before the middle of this season. And if that return is successful and he returns to action in 2013, AFL clubs are sure to look closely at the LARS procedure the young Docker underwent. The unlucky 21-year-old is back in to full running, remarkably, just five weeks after undergoing unconventional LARS surgery to his left knee. Morabito suffered a devastating third ACL injury on January 8 this year. The highly-rated youngster looked like playing in the NAB Cup and was on target to make his first AFL appearance since playing 23 games in his debut season in 2010. After discussions with the surgeon who treated Sydney's Nick Malceski with the LARS procedure, Morabito opted not to have a third traditional reconstruction. Malceski is the AFL's poster boy for LARS surgery after kicking two goals for the Swans in last year's grand final win over Hawthorn. The young Docker said it was a surreal feeling to be running so soon after the surgery. "To be honest, it was traumatic two or three weeks post op," he said before his running session on Fremantle Oval this morning. I was likening it to a traditional recon because the hamstring graft was quite sore. But speaking to Nick Malceski and (Geelong's) Dan Menzel, they said it was weird that things move quite quickly by week three. I got to two and a half weeks and thought that I wasn't looking like running here at all. And then it hit week three and I started jogging. Two weeks after that I feel quite good. The key is I have not lost a lot of strength. Morabito went through a lengthy running session in front of the media at Fremantle Oval this morning. But he said that he was in the dark about expected dates of return, as the LARS surgery he underwent was not standard. "We did not just go the standard LARS procedure, which is just the artificial graft going in," he said. We went a hybrid graft which incorporates LARS with part of my own hamstring tenant. The aim is to get the short turn around of LARS, but also the longevity its the hamstring graft. Morabito said that he did not consider the traditional LARS surgery and was preparing himself for a lengthy rehab after another third traditional reconstruction. But after consulting Malceski's surgeon he was now confident he would not spend this entire season watching football from the sidelines.