Jason Horne-Francis

We'll be right back.

Drove back to Adelaide and realised that I'd had a missed call from Mods.

Are you kidding?

From his actual number?

Yes, because I've had quite a few people pass away in my life and I don't delete their contacts.

I like just having a little laugh every now and then when I see their name.

But it was a bit like that.

I thought, Mods can't be ringing me.

He's bloody staffed.

Anyway, I rang him back and...

I had a chat to him for about 10 minutes, which was absolutely awesome.

Yeah, he's improving a lot.

He did not sound like the old Tony Modra.

He sounded like a bloke who didn't want to move his head and basically probably couldn't half move his head.

He sounded completely different at this stage because of all that, but he still had...

Mods' sense of humour, which was awesome to hear.

He's still trying to have a laugh in super tough times.

He did sound like he was in enormous pain, and he is because he's had so many operations.

But fingers crossed he's had his last one there for a while.

So, yeah, it was good.