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Jon Fortune

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  • Dazzler21
    Dazzler21 Posts: 51,571
    Gotta say he started Saturday brightly was confident and read a lot of headers well.
  • Richard J
    Richard J Posts: 8,042
    On trial at Leyton Orient and according to their message board played in a friendly at West Ham today.
  • kentaddick
    kentaddick Posts: 18,729
    On trial at Leyton Orient and according to their message board played in a friendly at West Ham today.
    best of luck to him! Hope he plays league football for as long as his poor legs can take.
  • I-SAW-POUSO-PLAY
    I-SAW-POUSO-PLAY Posts: 4,620
    Leyton Orient might as well call themselves Charlton 2!
  • Kap10
    Kap10 Posts: 15,642
    Leyton Orient might as well call themselves Charlton 2!
    They may argue Charlton 1 after New years Eve
  • ElfsborgAddick
    ElfsborgAddick Posts: 29,471
    Never rated him but he scored the goal that relegated palice, will forever remember him for that
  • Rizzo
    Rizzo Posts: 6,468
    Leyton Orient might as well call themselves Charlton 2!
    They may argue Charlton 1 after New years Eve
    A quick glance at the league table should set them straight.

  • daveaddick
    daveaddick Posts: 1,926
    Good luck to the lad he has been a decent player for the club but sorry to say I am glad we are not considering playing him last season he was dire
  • Kap10
    Kap10 Posts: 15,642
    Leyton Orient might as well call themselves Charlton 2!
    They may argue Charlton 1 after New years Eve
    A quick glance at the league table should set them straight.

    Good point
  • ken from bexley
    ken from bexley Posts: 5,128
    I hope it works out for him, he really seems a decent type.
    He was very kind to my lad when he was a mascot years ago.
    I have always had a high regard for him as he seemed to conduct himself well as a player?

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  • Richard J
    Richard J Posts: 8,042
    On trial again ,this time at Southend.
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,500
    Southend is an up and coming club. Good luck to Fortune who has always been a model professional if rather a mercenary one. (But aint they all !)
  • ColinTat
    ColinTat Posts: 2,794
    Good luck to him, hope he makes it back up to Championship level, which'll give him enough time to sort out his money.
  • Kap10
    Kap10 Posts: 15,642
    Southend is an up and coming club. Good luck to Fortune who has always been a model professional if rather a mercenary one. (But aint they all !)
    Was he really a mercenary? I always classified players as mercenaries, as the ones who went from club to club irrespective of contracts with no allegiance to the club or the fans. Many of the players that were recruited during the premiership years could have been classified as that. Fortune stayed with us for much of his career and then at the end of his contract decided he would try for better, as we declined and at the time felt he could demand a more. In the end it did not work out for him injury being the main reason his value decline.

    If you are going to say he is mercenary then you must also bracket Carl Leaburn in this as he refused a contract for some time so that he could move on to a higher league and presumably higher wage.

    I think it would be very unfair to classify either of these players as mercenaries, in the sense that it is normally applied to players in the modern game.
  • DRF
    DRF Posts: 2,455
    "if rather a mercenary one"

    Never has a post been as untrue as this.
  • Goonerhater
    Goonerhater Posts: 12,677
    Fortune paid all his own expences when at Sheff Utd. Would rather have some 1 like him any day than to55ers and con artists like Marcus Bent,Traore,theFox in the Box Jeffers(if the box had booze in it) and others.
  • Fortune 82nd Minute
    Fortune 82nd Minute Posts: 8,517
    Look at my user name. Think what my namesake did in the 82nd minute once. Think of the sheer joy of that day.

    The man is a legend not a mercenary.
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,287
    Southend is an up and coming club. Good luck to Fortune who has always been a model professional if rather a mercenary one. (But aint they all !)
    Lincs get's it wrong again - no 68.
  • tangoflash
    tangoflash Posts: 10,799
    Southend is an up and coming club. Good luck to Fortune who has always been a model professional if rather a mercenary one. (But aint they all !)
    Lincs get's it wrong again - no 68.
    Is that just todays total? ;-)

  • charltonbob
    charltonbob Posts: 8,348
    Southend is an up and coming club. Good luck to Fortune who has always been a model professional if rather a mercenary one. (But aint they all !)
    Mercenary ? Er how long was he at Charlton for you knob ?

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  • Miserableoldgit
    Miserableoldgit Posts: 21,458
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Fortune
  • East Kent Addick
    East Kent Addick Posts: 1,352
    Also Pardew made it clear he didn't rate Fortune as he loaned him to Stoke for half a season and was prepared to let him go permanently until Diawara left - would never call him a mercenary - he stayed here for a number of years without ever being first choice
  • PragueAddick
    PragueAddick Posts: 22,278
    In truth, few of our players in the last 20 years were less mercenary than Jon Fortune. Academy player too. One of our own. Dear oh dear.
  • Plaaayer
    Plaaayer Posts: 9,010
    Just seen him selling the Big Issue.
  • Oggy Red
    Oggy Red Posts: 44,990
    Southend is an up and coming club. Good luck to Fortune who has always been a model professional if rather a mercenary one. (But aint they all !)
    Mercenary ? Er how long was he at Charlton for you knob ?
    Compliment of the day!

  • Richard J
    Richard J Posts: 8,042
    Now trying his luck with the Gills , below from the Kent Messenger

    Gillingham are giving a trial to former Charlton centre-back Jonathan Fortune.

    The 31-year-old defender has been training with the Gills – when they have been able to beat the weather – with a view to joining until the end of the season if he can impress manager Andy Hessenthaler.

    The Gills boss revealed that he will cast his eye over Fortune, and take another look at West Ham midfielder Ollie Lee, in a friendly at Chelsea on Tuesday.

    Hessenthaler told the club’s website: "Jonathan Fortune has been in and has been doing a bit of training but with the weather it’s difficult to assess them.

    "Ian Hendon has told me a lot about Ollie, I’ve seen him a couple of times and he’s an interesting one. He’s been told by West Ham he won’t be offered another deal at the end of the season – we’re looking at all players, every time one is put to us we’ll have a look.

    "We have a game arranged at Chelsea on Tuesday so that might be an opportunity to look at them."

    Fortune has spent the vast majority of his career at Charlton, although he has been plagued by injury in recent season.

    The Islington-born defender has been sidelined since an Achilles injury sustained against Hartlepool in May, 2011. He has since featured on trial for Leyton Orient but is a free agent, having been out of contract since leaving the Addicks at the end of last season.

  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,512
    Good luck Jon

    And to Turnstile Jnr
  • Danny Addick
    Danny Addick Posts: 3,952
    So they could have had fry and fortune in defence?
  • Richard J
    Richard J Posts: 8,042
    Except Fry has now signed for Bradford.
  • MrLargo
    MrLargo Posts: 8,016
    Except Fry has now signed for Bradford.
    Really?! Think he's better than that, wouldn't look out of place in most League One sides.

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