As it happened even then he would have to wait two more seasons until 1921-23 for a regular First-Team place. But once in, he described as adding weight, strength and enthusiasm to the half-back line, at the end of it the league would won, as it also was the following year when he missed just four First Division games and gained a single international cap. In fact Jock would remain a virtual ever-present until the end of the 1926-7 campaign but by then he was thirty-three, managed only eight starts in 1927-8 and at its end was on his way. He went to Queens Park Rangers perhaps influenced by David, a centre-half, being already at a Fulham just relegated to the Third Division South. QPR had finished tenth in that same division, but as Jock was appointed club captain he saw them to sixth and third before at thirty-six finally stepping back. He returned to life on Merseyside. The club slipped to eighth, this as David also left London, playing on for Coventry for a season and then one at Llanelli.