Frustrated at the lack of first team football due largely to the excellence of Clough & Peacock at the Boro. Dennis applied for a transfer after 5 years at the club, rated at £1000 he transferred on 18-Nov-1960. His scoring exploits in the Boro reserve team had not escaped the eye of several other clubs, but the Albion came in and he left to start a career in the South, only to return back to his native North East the following year to get married.