a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Z0GMBaSoOOM/TS8AeyRp7_I/AAAAAAAAE6c/fSZ-FsVlYDM/s1600/irpa-tries-ashton.jpg"img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 350px; height: 200px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Z0GMBaSoOOM/TS8AeyRp7_I/AAAAAAAAE6c/fSZ-FsVlYDM/s400/irpa-tries-ashton.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5561664593717751794" border="0" //aspan style="font-weight: bold;"In December of 2009 a a href="http://rugbydump.blogspot.com/2009/12/irpa-try-of-year-15-contenders.html"shortlist of 15 tries/a were drawn up by the IRB and the International Rugby Players Association with a vote going to the public for the first time. Last month it was repeated, but this time there’s 18 tries to choose from./spanbr /br /The vote has been public since December and while this is the first you’re seeing of it on RD, it’s not too late as the competition close on the 17th of this month, which is this coming Monday.br /br /In a href="http://rugbydump.blogspot.com/2010/03/irpa-try-of-year-2009-awarded-to-jaque.html"2009 Jaque Fourie won the IRPA Try of the Year /aaward for his great try in the corner in the second test between the Springboks and the British amp; Irish Lions. There were over 10 000 votes by email, but hopefully this year more will take part.br /br /It’s a truly global competition too, with tries included from the Six Nations, Tri Nations, Pacific Nations Cup, IRB Nations Cup, June and November tests, and even the Women’s Rugby World Cup.br /br /For the second year running Shane Williams has two tries featured, while New Zealand’s teams have the most tries listed with five, while Australia, England, and Wales are all represented three times. The list was narrowed down from 230 tries to get the final 18.br /br /span style="font-size:85%;"span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);" span style="font-weight: bold;"1: Shane Williams |/span/spanspan style="font-weight: bold;" 2: Ben Foden | span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"3: Shane Williams/span | 4: Dan Carter | span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"5: Felipe Contepomi/span/span/spanspan style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" br /| /spanspan style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" 6: Gonzalo Tiesi, /spanspan style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" |/spanspan style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"7: Mils Muliaina/span/spanspan style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" |/spanspan style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" 8: Israel Dagg/spanspan style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" |/spanspan style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"9: James O’Connor/span /spanspan style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" |/spanspan style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" 10: Danielle Waterman/spanspan style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" |/spanspan style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"11: Cobie-Jane Morgan/span/spanspan style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" |/spanspan style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" 12: Huriana Manuel/spanspan style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" |/spanspan style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"13: Chrysander Botha/span /spanspan style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" |/spanspan style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" 14: Nikola Matawalu /spanspan style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" br /|/spanspan style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"15: Juan Jose Imhoff/span/spanspan style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" |/spanspan style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" 16: Chris Ashton /spanspan style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" |/spanspan style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"17: James Hook/span/spanspan style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" |/spanspan style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" 18: Adam Ashley-Cooper/spanbr /br /span style="font-style: italic;"The videos below are displayed as a playlist. Skip through and around by using the menu, or just sit back and watch them all. If there's any issues, you can mouse over and select. 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