Despite his young age, he had made over a hundred appearances for Stockport before coming to Dale and scooped a Player of the Season award along the way. However, he had lost his place at Stockport due to a drop in form, and his arrival at Dale was accompanied by a multitude of Stockport fans heading to the messageboards to inform Dale supporters that we had erred with this particular transfer.

He started the 2007-8 season as first choice keeper, and he looked to have all the attributes of a top class keeper, but as Dale continued to ship goals in at the wrong end, questions were raised in the direction of Spencer, with those County comments seemingly coming back to haunt us as we struggled to maintain clean sheets.

He missed his first game after picking up an injury on the eve of our FA Cup tie at Southend and that injury proved to be pretty much the beginning of the end of his time at Spotland. With replacement Sam Russell coming and impressing to the extent that he did, it was clear to everyone that Spencer was no longer considered to be first choice keeper at the club, and whilst he was given a handful of games later in the season when Russell himself picked up a knock, he was soon displaced by the on loan Tommy Lee.

So Spencer's last appearance for the club proved to be in March 2008. He lost the number one jersey in the Summer of 2008 to Sam Russell, and wasn't considered for selection when Russell was dropped in 2008-9, with Frank Fielding drafted in from Blackburn as the preferred option.

He did gain a late spell of first team football when he was sent to Chester City as an emergency loan keeper for the last few games of the 2008-9 season, and was in the Chester side on the day that they were relegated from the Football League.

There was no surprise when he was released from Spotland at the end of 2008-9, and he will most likely be remembered for his two performances against Stockport which seemed to back up every knocker that he acquired during his Edgeley Park days with two poor performances.