It was inevitable, when his son started playing, that the younger James would figure into the larger narrative.
Alluding to people whose savings vanished when their companies collapsed, he said, "It's inevitable when people's lives change like they have, entire retirement funds gone.
"But it's inevitable when you do a variety show, especially an urban variety show, that people are going to compare it.
It's inevitable when you start to institute transformational change across a large organization.
"It's inevitable when you have got wealthier rugby communities like in France some of our players are going to go abroad - I think that's a fact of life.
It's inevitable when the whole concept of exchanging ideas is so turned upside down.
It's inevitable when you combine two different people, with two different goals, ideas and feelings into one life.
Perhaps it's inevitable when a bunch of mainly white blokes take to the streets to shout about Islam, but speculation was already growing among anti-racist groups: could this be Britain's latest far-right street movement?
"But at the same time, it's also what pulled it apart, which I think is inevitable when you're working with your family for so long.
I don't mean to suggest they were lying; this murky territory is inevitable when it comes to a subject like drugs.
