By Matthew Luddington

GREEN MACHINE: Hayden Bird’s Leatherhead are back in the promotion mix
PICTURES: Gary House

HAYDEN Bird hopes his play-off experience can help steer Leatherhead’s young guns back up to Step 3.
Bird, the former Bromley, Carshalton Athletic, Merstham and Kingstonian boss, has turned around Tanners fortunes since taking charge in October 2022 with the club languishing near the bottom of Isthmian League South Central.
The Tanners finished just outside the play-off places in Bird’s first full season in charge but thanks largely to a producti...