The East End replay was the club's final match in the competition proper; indeed, in the next four years, the club twice scratched from the competition, and twice lost in its first Preliminary Round tie. With professionalism legalized, and the rise of the Scottish League, the club remained staunch in its amateurism. For example, after losing 3–1 in the first round of the Churchill Cup to the Wanderers on 16 November 1889, Moffat raised a protest that the Wanderers were employing professionals, based on evidence in a Court case that ultimately led to the extinction of the Dumfries club.
