However, McRorie's time at Anfield, after initial promise, was less than successful and after three season he was released, tried his hand at Millwall, Rochdale, back at Morton and Runcorn but within a year had dropped out the game almost completely. But, outwith football his time had not been entirely wasted. In 1932 he had returned to Glasgow to marry Catherine Aitken and the couple, after football, would also resettle back into their old King's Park stamping-ground. He went into the insurance business. They would have two Scottish-born children born, a boy and a girl. And both Daniel and Catherine would die locally she in 1987 and he two decades earlier in 1963 aged just fifty-seven, to be laid to rest in Cathcart's Linn Crematorium.