Andy Cade-Watts

**Andy Cade-Watts** is a footballer who played for **Hashtag United** (men).

Cade-Watts started out in the youth ranks of Bilbrook Junior, playing there from under-8 to under-18s level. Whilst with the Wolverhampton-based team, he had unsuccessful trials with Aston Villa and Stoke City.

University of Northampton
After departing Bilbrook Junior, Cade-Watts attended the University of Northampton and featured for their football first-team.

Non-League
Following his time at the University of Northampton, Cade-Watts moved into non-league and played for a variety of clubs, including Wombourne United, Bilston Town, Goffs Oak, Bush Hill Rangers (featuring 6 times in 2012–13) and Worcester College Old Boys.

#### HTU

2016–18
Towards the end of his time at the University of Northampton, Cade-Watts met Seb Carmichael-Brown after the latter began playing uni football alongside him, Dan Brown, Phil Martin and John Dawson. Following Dan Pheysey's departure from *The Tags* in mid-2016, Cade-Watts joined HTU after a call from Carmichael-Brown. Cade-Watts made his debut for the club in a 19–1 victory in Division 4 over Comedians XI, as he claimed his sole assist for HTU after setting up Ryan Adams for 9–1. He took his tally to 11 games after featuring against Google, West Ham United Staff, 1080 Football, Fox & Hounds, Sky Sports News, Mongolian Horses, Newhaven U21, AC Belmont, Freestylers and Palmers.

In his twelfth appearance, Cade-Watts played outfield for *The Tags* after coming off the substitute's bench during their 6–3 win over Coke United at Atlanta Silverbacks Park in the United States in early 2017. He remained with HTU for the rest of 2016–18, participating in Division matches and friendly fixtures as he featured 30 times in chapter one; including in the finale as they beat Primetubers 10–2.

2018–19
Cade-Watts remained with HTU as they moved into non-league with new manager Jay Devereux. After playing in pre-season friendlies with Royal Holloway Old Boys, Loughborough University and Tilbury, the goalkeeper played the full duration of the club's Thurlow Nunn League - Division One South debut as they lost away to Little Oakley on 4 August 2018. By the end of the succeeding December, Cade-Watts had been selected to start in a total of thirteen matches in league and cup. His last appearance for *The Tags* arrived on 29 December 2018 as HTU drew 1–1 in the league at Park Lane versus Benfleet.

#### Post-HTU

Retirement
In mid-2019, it was revealed that Cade-Watts had retired. After leaving HTU, Cade-Watts has not remained in competitive 11-a-side football following his retirement; though has featured in exhibitions games, including with Jemel Akeem, Theo Baker and Chris Dixon at Ibrox in May 2022.

### As a Coach

#### Pre-HTU

New York Red Bulls
For nine months of 2008, Cade-Watts worked as a development coach for Major League Soccer side New York Red Bulls.

#### HTU

2019–20
After departing HTU as a player, Cade-Watts became a goalkeeping coach under the management of Jay Devereux on 1 July 2019. He left at the conclusion of the 2019–20 campaign after parting ways due to being unable to commit to more than one training session a week, which Devereux found insufficient for their goalkeepers.

## Style of Play

Cade-Watts is known as a goalkeeper, though has predominantly appeared as an outfielder throughout his career as a forward, a midfielder and a defender; having played in every individual position except left-back. After joining HTU, he had spent the eight years prior outfield.

## Personal Life

Life
Cade-Watts married wife Nikki in 2014, they have two children in Poppy (b. 2017) and Tallulah (b. 2019). It wasn't until the birth of Poppy in 2017 that they agreed to merge their names, with Jeffs-Watts becoming Cade-Watts; however, for HTU, he didn't switch his name until mid-2018. He works as a Project Manager for Transport for London, having previously done so (among other roles) for GLL between 2009 and 2018. He attended the University of Northampton (2002–2005) and Loughborough University (2010–2012).

Sport
Cade-Watts supports Wolverhampton Wanderers, having had a season ticket in the Billy Wright Stand as a youngster, but previously supported Aston Villa and Liverpool. He has noted Gordon Banks, Lionel Messi and Ronaldinho as his favourite players, while noting Peter Schmeichel as someone who inspired him as a goalkeeper. Cade-Watts also played cricket whilst at the University of Northampton.

## HTU Statistics

Breakdown

'*Other Cups' includes competitions like the FA Trophy, the FA Vase and friendly tournaments. See also: HTUwiki:DataIssues.*

Appearances (46)
* List of appearances of Andy Cade-Watts

## HTU Honours

* Wembley Cup (1): 2017
* Thurlow Nunn League - Division One South (1): 2018-19

## References

1. ↑ "Huge happy birthday to our man @andyjw10 ‼️🎂" , 21 September 2018.
2. ↑ "Just caught up on the @GaryLineker documentary @WayneRooney-made me want to go kick a ball around & pretend to be Rooney..I'm 33 years old" , 7 October 2015.
3. ↑ "1982....it’s obviously a vintage year." , 10 May 2018.
4. ↑ "Born there, lived in Codsall for years, had a season ticket in the Billy Wright" , 7 April 2018.
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 5.7 5.8 5.9 "Andy Cade-Watts" , 9 March 2021.
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 "Andrew Cade-Watts" .
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 "Andy Jeffs-Watts" .
8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 "Andy Jeffs-Watts" .
9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 9.5 "10K Q&A Part 1" , 30 December 2017.
10. ↑ "Hashtag United Coaching Changes" , 10 July 2019.
11. ↑ "WHAT A DAY❗️🧤 ⚽️" , 22 May 2022.
12. ↑ "ANNOUNCEMENT" , 1 July 2019.
13. ↑ "WHO LEFT...AND WHY? - HASHTAG UNITED 2020/21 SQUAD UPDATE" , 7 September 2020.
14. ↑ "We didn’t watch last nights @England game, we were too busy to the latest addition to our household" , 12 October 2019.