Treliving's hand was forced when it comes to Hartley.
My bet is he wanted to get rid of him sooner, but the 2014/15 team massively overachieved and Hartley ended up winning coach of the year. With his contract up at the time BT had no choice but to re-sign him.
My hat is off to BT for quickly correcting that move despite the optics and firing him only a year later, and replacing him with a coach that is clearly taking this team to another level.
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