[3] His first season at Dean Court was a struggle, and in March 1972 he joined Plymouth Argyle on loan.
[3] However, he returned to Bournemouth and eventually played 99 league games, scoring 17 goals, before a £18,000 transfer to York City in August 1974.
He spent the 1976 season on loan in the American Soccer League, helping the Los Angeles Skyhawks win the ASL title.
[3] He spent the summer of 1977 on loan to North American Soccer League side Seattle Sounders, scoring 12 goals in 22 appearances, and joined Seattle permanently the following summer after playing the last of his 42 league games for Bournemouth, in which he had scored three times.
[4] Cave died in his home in Aleppo, Pennsylvania on 6 November 1984, aged 35, from accidental carbon monoxide poisoning (running his car in a garage).