It is know that Roderick, "Roddy" for short and born in 1877, arrived in London aged twenty to work in Canning Town at the Ironworks shipyard there. It is unclear if he came south to look for work and found football or was hired by the firm because of known existing football prowess, although, curiously and unlike his two contemporaries, Andy McCombie and Peter McWilliam, he has no apparent playing-record in the Highland capital. That is apart from a possible connection with the same pair and their club, Thistle, albeit from his birth-place and later residence in the now city Clachnacuddin, "Clach", might be more likely as a footballing home.      

It so happened that the start of the Great War coincided with McEachane's footballing career coming to an end. He was thirty-six when he played his last game in November 1913 as Arsenal moved north of the river, after which he appeared to fade largely from the Gunners' view. In fact much more of his later life is known than has appeared to be the case. His father, Peter and Indian-born, was a Smithy Hammerman and it may have been the metal trade that started the young Roddy on his road south. In 1891 he is recorded aged fourteen already as a railway rivet-boy now living a hundred and fifty yards from the "Clach" ground. In 1901 he is boarding in London's East End in Bromley-by-Bow as a boiler-maker. In 1906 on his marriage his address, listed as a professional footballer, is given as 35, Vambery Rd. in Plumstead near the then Arsenal Manor Ground and in 1911 it is still in Plumstead at 25, Leghorn Rd.. And it was on that same road he remained, in 1918, then with his wife, Bertha, two of their three children and back boiler-making in 1939, and on his death at the aged of seventy-four in 1952.