| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Richard Raymond Cadette[1] | ||
| Date of birth | (1965-03-21)21 March 1965 (age 60) | ||
| Place of birth | Hammersmith, England | ||
| Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)[2] | ||
| Position | Forward | ||
| Youth career | |||
| –1984 | Wembley | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1984–1985 | Orient | 21 | (4) |
| 1985–1987 | Southend United | 90 | (49) |
| 1987–1988 | Sheffield United | 28 | (7) |
| 1988–1992 | Brentford | 87 | (20) |
| 1989–1990 | →Bournemouth (loan) | 8 | (1) |
| 1992–1994 | Falkirk | 92 | (31) |
| 1994 | →Millwall (loan) | 0 | (0) |
| 1994–1997 | Millwall | 24 | (5) |
| 1997 | Shelbourne | 1 | (0) |
| 1997 | Clydebank | 4 | (1) |
| 1997–1998 | Gloucester City | 2 | (0) |
| Total | 355 | (119) | |
| Managerial career | |||
| 2002–2006 | Tooting & Mitcham United | ||
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Richard Raymond Cadette (born 21 March 1965) is an English former professionalfootballer who played as aforward, most notably forFalkirk,Brentford andSouthend United. After his retirement he moved intomanagement withTooting & Mitcham United.
Born inHammersmith, Cadette began his career innon-League football withIsthmian League First Division clubWembley, before securing a move to theFootball League withThird Division clubOrient in August 1984.[2] He made 27 appearances and scored six goals in a disastrous1984–85 season for the Os,[3] which saw the club relegated to theFourth Division.[4] He departedBrisbane Road after the season.[2]
Cadette signed for Fourth Division clubSouthend United in a £4,000 deal in August 1985.[5][6] He had an emphatic start to his career atRoots Hall, scoring four goals in a 5–1 rout of former club Orient on his full league debut for the club.[6] He scored 56 goals in 104 appearances over the course of two seasons and celebrated promotion to the Third Division with a third-place finish at the end of the1986–87 season.[5][7] Cadette twice named in thePFA Fourth Division Team of the Year while with the Shrimpers and was also voted the club's1985–86 Player of the Year.[8][9] He left the club after the season.[2]
Cadette moved up toSecond Division to sign forSheffield United in July 1987, in a move which was settled bytribunal for £90,000.[10] He failed to replicate his previous goalscoring form, netting just seven times in 33 appearances, before departing at the end of the1987–88 season.[2]
Cadette moved back toLondon to sign for Third Division clubBrentford in July 1988 for an £80,000 fee.[1] Brought in by managerSteve Perryman to form astrike partnership withGary Blissett, Cadette hit the ground running, top scoring with 17 goals in the1988–89 season,[11] before having his season cut short by injury in March 1989.[1] He featured in Brentford's run to the quarter-finals of theFA Cup, which ended in a 4–0 defeat to giantsLiverpool, with Cadette hitting the post with a chance which could have put the Bees 1–0 up.[12]
The arrival ofDean Holdsworth up front for the1989–90 season and the change toroute one tactics pushed Cadette out of contention.[12] Out of favour at,[1] Cadette joined Second Division strugglersBournemouth onloan until the end of the1989–90 season in March 1990.[2] He scored one goal in 8 appearances.[2] Cadette rejected a move to aDutchEerste Divisie club during the 1990 off-season and stayed at Griffin Park on a weekly contract.[13] He scored seven goals from 39 appearances in the1990–91 season,[14] which was ended after he underwent knee surgery in April 1991.[15]
Cadette was offered a new contract in the 1991 off-season, but again turned it down to remain on a weekly arrangement.[16] He began the1991–92 season up front alongside Holdsworth, but fell behind Blissett in the pecking order in October 1991 and departedGriffin Park in January 1992.[1] Cadette made 123 appearances and scored 31 goals in3+1⁄2 years with Brentford.[1] Looking back in 2005, Cadette revealed that despite his differences with managerPhil Holder (who had been promoted from Steve Perryman's assistant in 1990), he appreciated the support he received from the fans.[12]
Cadette joinedScottish League Premier Division clubFalkirk for a £50,000 fee in January 1992,[17] linking up with former Brentford teammatesTony Parks andEddie May.[1] He had a successful two and a half years with the club, winning the1993–94Scottish Challenge Cup (scoring in the final after being famously attacked by managerJim Jefferies at half time) and theFirst Division title,[18] which secured an immediate return to the top-flight.[19] He departedBrockville Park in October 1994, after a spell which Jim Jefferies described as "phenomenal".[20]
Cadette returned toEngland to sign forFirst Division clubMillwall on loan in October 1994.[21] He signed a permanent £130,000 deal the following month.[22] In what turned out to be a disastrous move,[23] Cadette made just 27 appearances and scored 6 goals in almost three years at The New Den.[2]
After a trial withClydebank, Cadette signed forLeague of Ireland clubShelbourne on a short-term contract in August 1997, as cover for the injuredStephen Geoghegan andPat Morley.[24]
Cadette rejoinedScottish League Second Division club Clydebank in late August 1997, scoring one goal in seven appearances before departing the following month.[25]
Cadette dropped into non-League football to joinSouthern League Premier Division clubGloucester City in October 1997,[26] for whom he made just three appearances.[27]
After retiring as a player, Cadette became involved with the youth setup at former club Millwall.[28] He later managed Isthmian League First Division clubTooting & Mitcham between November 2002 and May 2006.[28][29][30] He was sacked at the end of the2005–06 season, after defeat toTonbridge Angels in the playoff semi-finals.[31]
| Club | Season | League | National Cup | League Cup | Other | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Orient | 1984–85[2] | Third Division | 21 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 2[a] | 0 | 28 | 5 |
| Sheffield United | 1987–88[2] | Second Division | 28 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2[b] | 0 | 33 | 7 |
| Brentford | 1988–89[11] | Third Division | 32 | 12 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 5[a] | 2 | 49 | 17 |
| 1989–90[32] | Third Division | 16 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3[a] | 1 | 21 | 2 | |
| 1990–91[14] | Third Division | 28 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 6[a] | 1 | 39 | 7 | |
| 1991–92[14] | Third Division | 11 | 1 | — | 3 | 4 | — | 14 | 5 | |||
| Total | 87 | 20 | 9 | 1 | 13 | 6 | 14 | 4 | 123 | 31 | ||
| Bournemouth (loan) | 1989–90[2] | Second Division | 8 | 1 | — | — | — | 8 | 1 | |||
| Millwall | 1994–95[33] | First Division | 16 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | — | 19 | 5 | |
| 1995–96[34] | Second Division | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 1 | 0 | ||
| 1996–97[35] | Second Division | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1 | |
| Total | 24 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 27 | 6 | ||
| Clydebank | 1997–98[25] | Scottish Second Division | 4 | 1 | — | — | 2[c] | 0 | 6 | 1 | ||
| Gloucester City | 1997–98[27] | Southern League Premier Division | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | — | 3 | 0 | ||
| Career total | 150 | 33 | 13 | 2 | 18 | 6 | 20 | 4 | 201 | 45 | ||
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