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Mar 10, 2026 21 min

5 MINUTE WARNING | The Essendon Apocalypse

from Brisbane Lions Lowdown Hosted by Jamcast Studios

🏉 Prepare for a rare, unbroken, long-form deep dive into one of the most seismic chapters in Australian sport. 🏉 A story of ambition, secrecy, power, and the fallout that reshaped a club — and the league around it. 🏉 Across this forensic documentary, we trace the meteoric rise of James Hird, the vision that set Essendon on a bold new path, and the chain of decisions that would ultimately unravel its high-performance program. 🏉 From federal investigations to media warfare, boardroom fractures to an unprecedented legal showdown in Switzerland, this is the saga that consumed the AFL. 🏉 You’ll feel the human cost too — the heartbreak, the lost accolades, the lives changed forever — and the long shadow the aftermath still casts on the game. 🏉 This isn’t just a supplements scandal. It’s a story about loyalty and ambition, oversight and betrayal, identity and consequence.

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