Early years Born in
Hammersmith, Cadette began his career in
non-League football with
Isthmian League First Division club
Wembley, before securing a move to the
Football League with
Third Division club
Orient 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
Brisbane Road after the season. He had an emphatic start to his career at
Roots Hall, scoring four goals in a 5–1 rout of former club Orient on his full league debut for the club. 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. 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. Brought in by manager
Steve Perryman to form a
strike partnership with
Gary Blissett, 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. The arrival of
Dean Holdsworth up front for the
1989–90 season and the change to
route one tactics pushed Cadette out of contention. 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
Griffin Park in January 1992. linking up with former Brentford teammates
Tony Parks and
Eddie May. He quickly became a fan favorite at the Bairns, due to his goalscoring form. Cadette had a successful two and a half years with the club, winning the
1993–94 Scottish Challenge Cup (scoring in the final after being famously attacked by manager
Jim Jefferies at half time) and the
First Division title, which secured an immediate return to the top-flight. He departed
Brockville Park in October 1994, after a spell which Jim Jefferies described as "phenomenal".
Millwall Cadette returned to
England to sign for
First Division club
Millwall 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.
Clydebank Cadette rejoined
Scottish League Second Division club Clydebank in late August 1997. He scored on his debut for the club, in a 2-2 draw against
Clyde. However, Cadette scored 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==