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Richard Raymond Cadette (born 21 March 1965) is an English former professional
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who played as a
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, most notably for
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,
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and
Southend United Southend United Football Club is a professional association football club based in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England, which competes in the National League, the fifth level of English football. The team are known as "The Shrimpers", a reference ...
. After his retirement he moved into
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with
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.


Playing career


Early years

Born in
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, Cadette began his career in
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with
Isthmian League The Isthmian League () is a regional Association football, football league covering Greater London, East of England, East and South East England, featuring mostly semi-professional clubs. Founded in 1905 by amateur clubs in the London area, th ...
First Division club
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, before securing a move to the
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with Third Division club
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in August 1984. He made 27 appearances and scored six goals in a disastrous 1984–85 season for the Os, which saw the club relegated to the Fourth Division. He departed
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after the season.


Southend United

Cadette signed for Fourth Division club
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in a £4,000 deal in August 1985. He had an emphatic start to his career at
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, scoring four goals in a 5–1 rout of former club Orient on his full league debut for the club. 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 the 1986–87 season. Cadette twice named in the PFA Fourth Division Team of the Year while with the Shrimpers and was also voted the club's 1985–86 Player of the Year. He left the club after the season.


Sheffield United

Cadette moved up to
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to sign for
Sheffield United Sheffield United Football Club is a professional football club based in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. The club competes in the Championship, the second tier of English football. They are nicknamed "the Blades" due to Sheffield's history ...
in July 1987, in a move which was settled by
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for £90,000. He failed to replicate his previous goalscoring form, netting just seven times in 33 appearances, before departing at the end of the 1987–88 season.


Brentford

Cadette moved back to
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to sign for Third Division club
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in July 1988 for an £80,000 fee. Brought in by manager
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to form a
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with
Gary Blissett Gary Blissett (born 29 June 1964) is an English former professional footballer who played as a forward. He notably played in the Premier League for Wimbledon, and in the Football League for Crewe Alexandra, Brentford and Wycombe Wanderers. He ...
, Cadette hit the ground running, top scoring with 17 goals in the 1988–89 season, before having his season cut short by injury in March 1989. He featured in Brentford's run to the quarter-finals of the
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, which ended in a 4–0 defeat to giants
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, with Cadette hitting the post with a chance which could have put the Bees 1–0 up. The arrival of
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up front for the 1989–90 season and the change to route one tactics pushed Cadette out of contention. Out of favour at, Cadette joined Second Division strugglers
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on
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until the end of the 1989–90 season in March 1990. He scored one goal in 8 appearances. Cadette rejected a move to a
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club during the 1990 off-season and stayed at Griffin Park on a weekly contract. He scored seven goals from 39 appearances in the 1990–91 season, which was ended after he underwent knee surgery in April 1991. Cadette was offered a new contract in the 1991 off-season, but again turned it down to remain on a weekly arrangement. He began the 1991–92 season up front alongside Holdsworth, but fell behind Blissett in the pecking order in October 1991 and departed
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in January 1992. Cadette made 123 appearances and scored 31 goals in years with Brentford. Looking back in 2005, Cadette revealed that despite his differences with manager
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(who had been promoted from Steve Perryman's assistant in 1990), he appreciated the support he received from the fans.


Falkirk

Cadette joined Scottish League Premier Division club
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for a £50,000 fee in January 1992, linking up with former Brentford teammates
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and
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. He had a successful two and a half years with the club, winning the 1993–94
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at half time) and the
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title, which secured an immediate return to the top-flight. He departed
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in October 1994, after a spell which Jim Jefferies described as "phenomenal".


Millwall

Cadette returned to
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to sign for
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club
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on loan in October 1994. He signed a permanent £130,000 deal the following month. In what turned out to be a disastrous move, Cadette made just 27 appearances and scored 6 goals in almost three years at The New Den.


Shelbourne

After a trial with
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, Cadette signed for
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club Shelbourne on a short-term contract in August 1997, as cover for the injured
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and Pat Morley.


Clydebank

Cadette rejoined
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club Clydebank in late August 1997, scoring one goal in seven appearances before departing the following month.


Gloucester City

Cadette dropped into non-League football to join Southern League Premier Division club Gloucester City in October 1997, for whom he made just three appearances.


Coaching career

After retiring as a player, Cadette became involved with the youth setup at former club Millwall. He later managed Isthmian League First Division club Tooting & Mitcham between November 2002 and May 2006. He was sacked at the end of the 2005–06 season, after defeat to
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in the playoff semi-finals.


Career statistics


Honours

Southend United *
Football League Fourth Division The Football League Fourth Division was the fourth-highest division in the English football league system from the 1958–59 season until the creation of the Premier League prior to the 1992–93 season. Following the creation of the Premier ...
third-place promotion: 1986–87 Brentford *
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: 1991–92 Falkirk *
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: 1993–94 *