Rumour is he was pushed, not poached.
I've been critical of Mulholland. His recruiting class of '15 was one of the worst I've seen, with barely a single success story among them. The loss of Bird was poor. And his comment during the Merrin negotiation of "highest paid forward in our history" was unnecessary and unprofessional.
That said, he inherited a salary cap nightmare, and is one of the very few (nay, only?) people from outside the insular boy's club appointed to a key, influential role in the organisation. Disappointing to see him go so soon.
I want disappointed at all. He had little-to-nothing to work with coming into 2015, had lost Bird and Morris before he even started and could do little about losing Merrin at that stage. His recruitment for next year has been good so far, minus an outside back or two. Compel ridiculous if he is being pushed out now...