Manager Francis Vines insists Crawley will not suffer a recurrence of travel sickness when the Conference campaign gets underway.

The new fixture list has handed Reds a tough opening run of away games with three of the first four trips being against teams who finished in the top half of the table last season.

They begin at York on August 13 and face a 500-mile round trip to Morecambe two weeks later following home games against Dagenham (August 16) and Hereford (August 20).

Crawley then go to last season's play-off semi-finalists Aldershot, before another long journey to Lancashire to meet Accrington Stanley.

Reds only won once on the road in the first three months of last season but Vines believes his players will use that experience to ensure it does not happen again.

He said: "I'm not worried about the away fixtures. We are largely sticking with the players from last season and they know now what they need to do away from home. Last season was a learning curve for most of them and they will take that into this season.

"The opening game will be tough because I know they (York) have made a lot of changes in terms of players up there. But maybe we will catch them before they have had time to gel together."

Crawley won just one of their final 11 league games last season and Vines believes the new campaign's run-in will be just as tough.

He said: "We have got quite a few difficult games at the end, just like last season. It has got a lot of the same teams with the likes of Halifax, Stevenage, Aldershot and Exeter.

"I'm not too bothered about it though. You have to play those teams at some time and sometimes it can work for you to meet them at the end.

"It depends on where we are and the other teams are at the time as to how important those games are."