The Winners is the name of two Australian television shows that show highlights of Australian rules football

Australian rules football

Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, also called football, Aussie rules or footy is a sport played between two teams of 22 players on either...

 matches.

The original version was broadcast during the late 1970s to late 1980s on the ABC

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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 on Sunday mornings. It was normally hosted by Drew Morphett

Drew Morphett

Drew Morphett is an Australian sports broadcaster.Morphett started his career as a sport specialist trainee in Sydney in 1966 at 18 years of age....

 with a panel consisting of former players and pundits. Two matches from the previous day's Victorian Football League

Australian Football League

The Australian Football League is both the governing body and the major professional competition in the sport of Australian rules football...

 (VFL) fixtures would be screened and the panel would speculate about the games along with the league ladder and the goal

Goal (sport)

Goal refers to a method of scoring in many sports. It can also refer to the physical structure or area of the playing surface where scoring occurs....

, mark

Mark (Australian football)

A mark is a skill in Australian rules football where a player cleanly catches a kicked ball that has travelled more than 15 metres without anyone else touching it or the ball hitting the ground....

 and play of the day. The format of the show was comprehensive, yet devoted mainly to matters on the field. Today it appears simplistic when compared with modern football's more saturated and market driven media coverage.

A new version of The Winners returned on the Fox Footy Channel

Fox Footy Channel

The Fox Footy Channel was a channel exclusively dedicated to Australian rules football. It was owned by Foxtel, and operated out of their Melbourne based studios. It was available on Foxtel, Austar, Optus Television, TransTV and Neighbourhood Cable up until transmission was ceased on 1 October 2006...

 in 2000, hosted by Clinton Grybas

Clinton Grybas

Clinton Andrew Grybas was a leading Australian rules football and sports radio and television commentator. His death at only 32 years of age was thought to be as a result of falling whilst sleepwalking.-Career:...

, showing highlights of all eight AFL

Australian Football League

The Australian Football League is both the governing body and the major professional competition in the sport of Australian rules football...

 games from the weekend in a one hour show. It is now shown on Fox Sports

Fox Sports (Australia)

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on the Monday night following the round.