 The following season, Binney was voted the PFA Division Four Player of the Year as he scored another 25 times.Unsurprisingly he was noticed by a number of higher-level teams, and in May 1974 was signed by Brian Clough for Brighton & Hove Albion for a fee of £25,000 with John Templeman and Lammie Robertson moving to Exeter in exchange.He had scored 90 goals in 177 league appearances for the Grecians.