{"id":45482,"date":"2026-01-26T04:55:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T04:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/gabriel-hamer-webb-how-family-grief-made-uncapped-wing-pick-wales-over-england\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T04:55:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T04:55:17","slug":"gabriel-hamer-webb-how-family-grief-made-uncapped-wing-pick-wales-over-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/gabriel-hamer-webb-how-family-grief-made-uncapped-wing-pick-wales-over-england\/","title":{"rendered":"Gabriel Hamer-Webb: How family grief made uncapped wing pick Wales over England"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Gabriel Hamer-Webb has revealed how family grief led to him picking Wales over England for his international future.<\/b><\/p>\n

The Bath-born wing has already represented England at Under-20s level in the Six Nations.<\/p>\n

But he was convinced to switch allegiance by his Cardiff-born mother following the tragic loss of both his father and brother.<\/p>\n

“That loss definitely taught me a lot. I’ve only tried to see silver linings and even though it’s tragic and sudden, you can’t control or change it,” said Hamer-Webb.<\/p>\n

“The losses meant that I’m a sole male figure in my instant family. That weight brings pressure but I would do anything for my sisters and my mum anyway.<\/p>\n

“So I asked my mum a while back, ‘What would be better for you?’ She said, ‘Wales of course, that’s where we’re from, where your family is from’.<\/p>\n

“That was big for me. If that’s the thing that makes my mother the proudest, then wow, that could be something.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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Gabriel Hamer-Webb has revealed how family grief led to him picking Wales over England for his international future. The Bath-born wing has already represented England at Under-20s level in the Six Nations. But he was convinced to switch allegiance by his Cardiff-born mother following the tragic loss of both his father and brother. “That loss […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45483,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[278,2999,7506,978,13426,11699,13427,312,4432],"class_list":["post-45482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wales","tag-england","tag-family","tag-gabriel","tag-grief","tag-hamerwebb","tag-pick","tag-uncapped","tag-wales","tag-wing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45482"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45484,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45482\/revisions\/45484"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}