He failed to break into the first team at Ewood Park and left to join Torquay United in August 1969, making his league debut early the following season in a 5–1 win against Tranmere Rovers.

He played the first 21 games of the following season, but then suffered a bad leg injury in a car accident, losing part of his right knee cap.

This injury kept him out of football for 18 months before Maurice Setters, an old friend from his Coventry days and the then manager of Doncaster Rovers, gave him the chance to join the club in July 1972.

In September 1976 he returned to the UK, joining York City, playing 18 times before spending the 1977 NASL season with the Las Vegas Quicksilvers.

On his return to the UK, he joined Macclesfield Town, then spent one final season in the NASL with the renamed San Diego Sockers in 1978.