During his eighteen seasons as a player at Parkhead, including the largely fallow War years when he worked in a munitions' factory, McMenamin would make over four hundred and fifty starts and score almost a hundred and fifty goals, as the team took seven normal Leagues, four more war-time ones and six Cups. And even when his time was finished in the East End of Glasgow he, aged forty, would manage a further three seasons at Partick Thistle and there add a seventh Cup.   

So it was that at forty-three it looked as if Jimmy was finished with the game. He had married young, his bride Rose McCluskey. They would have seven children, two born in Rutherglen, the others in Camlachie two girls and five boys, all of whom would play either the senior and junior games. John would win the Cup in 1927 with Celtic and the League in 1932 with Motherwell. Harry would win the FA Cup with Newcastle that same year. Jimmy, meantime, would run a bar, that is until Partick asked him to coach and in 1934 he was appointed back at Celtic Park as assistant to Willy Maley.