Original sentence: After mismanagement during the late 1980s, Hibs were on the brink of financial ruin
Edited sentence: After just under a (largely successful) decade in charge, Alex Miller was abruptly sacked as manager in September 1996, which bought about a brief but severe decline in the club's fortunes.Although manager Alex Miller kept the club afloat in the SPL during the later part of the 1980s, mismanagement at board level meant that Hibs were on the brink of financial ruin by the end of the decade.Jocky Scott briefly took the reigns, before Jim Duffy was appointed as Miller's permanent successor that December.While he had built up a reputation as a promising young manager at Dundee, Duffy's spell at Hibernian was utterly disastrous; the club just barely survived in his first season, and he was eventually sacked in February 1998, with the club hopelessly adrift at the bottom of the SPL and essentially doomed to relegation