But, whilst David remained at home but about to be signed South by Gainsborough Trinity, Geordie at seventeen was by then already away, boarding in Buckhaven, working as a miner but also playing for the town-team. And it from there, as a small, tough and skilled left-winger. that his footballing ascent would begin. At eighteen he played a season with David for Cowdenbeath, from where he was signed by Hearts for three, joined for two by his brother. They included a Scottish Cup triumph again with David , where he scored the winning goal, whilst also gaining four caps. And it was at that point, he aged twenty-two, that Everton came in for the pair of them. 

In fact for both brother's their times at Goodison Park were to be difficult. For David it proved to be mostly reserve football with a move then to Portsmouth, from there after just a season giving up the game entirely. For Geordie there were many more first-team starts and a further cap but a dispute over registration when he also wanted to head to the south-coast club. The result was he was dropped from the 1907 FA Cup-winning side and for the beginning of 1907-8 loaned out to Distillery in Belfast. However, it proved a blessing. So well did he do there that in November 1907 Newcastle came in, taking him to St James' for eight seasons, a League title, an FA Cup win at last and a sixth and final cap.        

Meantime, whilst on the point of leaving Hearts Geordie had married in Edinburgh. His wife was a Northumberland-girl, Susan Jack, and they were to have one son, born in Liverpool. And now, with The Great War forcing a pause in League and Cup, he would bring them to Scotland, initially going down the mine once more but not in Lochgelly but Buckhaven. That is until called up in 1917 to the Navy. 

As a result when hostilities ceased and despite being in his mid-thirties he was able first to play for Raith until 1920, the family moving to Kirkcaldy, and finish at almost thirty-eight with East Fife. However, he was also to lose Susan. She would die in 1921 in Kirkcaldy at not quite forty and, whilst the following year he would in Edinburgh once more marry, his bride an eighteen year-old Kirkcaldy-girl, Mary Page, a decision had been taken. The newly-weds would leave for Canada. Their son would born in 1924 in Vancouver and, whilst they returned the following year, staying long enough for their second child to be born back in Kirkcaldy, it was not to be permanent. In 1928 they sailed once more, this time with brother David, their mother and for good. 

But it was again not to be without tragedy. In September 1932 the brothers' mother would die, however her passing had been preceded eight months earlier by Geordie being widowed for a second time. On her passing Mary was just twenty-seven years old. He would survive her by almost forty years, dying still in Vancouver in 1960 aged seventy-six, to be buried at the city's Mountain View Cemetery. Brother David death is unknown.