Although he was brought in Inverness, on The Crown, on Argyle St. just a doors down from Peter McWilliam, Andrew McCombie was actually born in 1876 off the High Street in Dingwall, his father's home village being nearby Conon. He was thus a Ross-shire man, from a family of Gaelic-speakers, and like McWilliam become a stalwart of the great Newcastle of the 1900s. 

And, whilst it all started on the banks of the Pfeffer, taking in, like McWilliam, Inverness Thistle, finishing on Tyneside, McCombie on retirement from playing in 1910 becoming a coach at St. James's Park and dying in 1952 in North Shields, his time Down South actually began on Wearside. He from 1898 had six seasons with over a hundred and fifty starts and a League title at right-back for Sunderland, a club prone to financial irregularities at the time. That is before he and it indeed fell out over money with the result he took the club to the FA, won and then simply transferred himself and his skill twelve miles north.