A vastly experienced, combative midfielder with over 350 EFL appearances under his belt, who joined the Pitmen from Vanarama National League side Solihull Moors in May 2025

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Spotted by West Bromwich Albion playing for the Barking College of Sport in 2006, Labadie earned himself a deal with the club after a successful trial and was a regular in the Baggies reserve side during the 2007-2008 season, playing nineteen times. He signed his first professional contract at the Hawthorns in the summer of 2008 and was sent out on loan to League Two side Shrewsbury Town midway through the next season to gain much-needed first-team experience

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At the start of the following season and with a one-year extension to his West Brom contract secured, Labadie returned to Shrewsbury on a three-month loan, making thirteen starts and scoring five times in a highly impressive loan spell. A couple of weeks after returning to West Brom, Labadie was sent out to another League Two side in the form of Cheltenham Town, where he spent three months at Whaddon Road and made eleven starts for the Robins

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Labadie was to end the 2009-2010 season out on loan to a third side as he spent the final two months of the campaign at League One strugglers Tranmere Rovers, helping them narrowly avoid relegation by just a point with three goals in five games to secure nineteenth place in the table for the Prenton Park side

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With his contract at West Brom at an end in the summer of 2010, Labadie made his move to Tranmere a permanent one as he signed a two-year deal. His next two seasons saw him make forty-five starts overall but was to suffer a run of injuries as well as spells on the sidelines suspended as a result of several yellow and red cards. Tranmere once again retained their third-tier status with seventeenth and twelfth-placed finishes

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At the expiry of his two-year deal at Tranmere, Labadie joined fellow League One side Notts County on a free transfer in July 2012, once again agreeing a two-year contract with the Magpies. It proved to be a much less fruitful two seasons at Meadow Lane than the previous two at Tranmere as Labadie was never a regular pick, making thirty-one starts overall and scoring three times as they finished mid-table in both of his campaigns there. In March 2013, he spent a short spell on loan at League Two strugglers Torquay United, helping them narrowly avoid relegation back to non-league football with four goals in seven starts

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Another loan spell at Plainmoor followed in January 2014, with Labadie making three starts in the month before having the move made permanent at the end of the month as he agreed a mutual termination with Notts County. Just three weeks after joining Torquay on a permanent. basis, Labadie was embroiled in controversy as he was charged with misconduct by the FA for a series of alleged biting incidents on Ollie Banks in a game against Chesterfield. He was subsequently handed a ten-match ban and a £2,000 fine, leading to Torquay bringing his short spell to an end in June 2014 as they were finally relegated back to the National League

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Labadie remained in the Football League with a move to Dagenham & Redbridge in July 2014, with the player returning to the South East for the first time since leaving to join West Brom as a youngster. In two seasons at Victoria Road, he made over fifty appearances but was once again accused of more biting offences in a game against Stevenage's Ronnie Henry in March 2015, leading to a six-month ban from the game

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He returned the following season a much-changed character, however, despite the clubs's struggles and subsequent relegation back to the National League. He made thirty-four appearances, scoring five times, and was named the supporter's player of the year

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After leaving Dagenham at the end of his deal, Labadie made the move to South Wales to join league rivals Newport County. This proved to be the pivotal move of the player's career as he spent the next five seasons with the Exiles. He was to make nearly 130 starts for the club over this time, taking the captaincy of the club in the 2017-2018 season as Newport established themselves as a mid-table League Two side after years of struggle towards the foot of the table. However, a cruciate ligament injury sustained in a game against Yeovil Town in March 2018 ruled him out for most of the year, returning to the club in October 2018 when he had returned to fitness

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He helped the Exiles to the League Two play-off final in the 2018-2019 season, where they lost to former club Tranmere Rovers at Wembley courtesy of a last-minute goal. The club repeated the feat in the 2020-2021 season, with Labadie again on the end of extra-time heartbreak as Newport were beaten by a 107th-minute penalty by Morecambe as they once again fell at the final hurdle in the League Two play-off final

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That was to prove to be Labadie's final game for the Exiles, as he departed the club in the summer to join league rivals Walsall on a two-year deal. He was to take the Saddlers captaincy midway through his first season there as he made thirty-seven starts overall as Walsall finished sixteenth in both of his seasons there

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After leaving Walsall in the summer of 2023, Labadie made his first-ever foray into non-league football with a move to Solihull Moors, initially on a one-year deal. His first season at Damson Park saw him make twenty-eight starts as the Moors finished fifth in the table and made it all the way through to the play-off final, losing on penalties to Bromley in the final at Wembley. There had been a second appearance under the famous arch earlier in the month as Solihull also made it through to the F.A. Trophy Final, losing on penalties again but this time to Gateshead

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After agreeing an extension to his deal at Solihull to take him into the 2024-2025 season, Labadie was in and out of the side during a tough season for the Moors as they struggled to hit the heights of the previous season with a mid-table finish.

 

Hednesford manager Gavin Hurren had already sounded out the midfielder over a move to the ambitious Pitmen during the latter part of the 2024-2025 campaign, with Labadie finally putting pen to paper on a deal to join the newly promoted club in May 2025

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