Burnley have finally got their season up and running with this comfortable victory over Gillingham, their first victory at Priestfield in just short of 20 years.
It was March 1984 when the Clarets last registered a victory in Kent, but they were always favourites once they were 2-0 up, with two goals within the space of as many minutes just before the half hour.
Gillingham were keen to build on their first win of the season at Bradford on Saturday, but sluggish defending contributed to their downfall and Burnley's dominance grew as the match wore on.
Both sides had good early chances before Ian Moore broke the deadlock after 27 minutes, the first player to pierce the Gillingham defence this season.
Chris Hope was caught in two minds on the by-line, and Moore raced past him and jinked into the box to fire past Jason Brown.
The Welsh Under-21 keeper, who skippered the national side against Serbia & Montenegro last week was beaten again.
Two minutes later Glen Little, who might have scored himself as early as the fourth minute, Robbie Blake and Luke Chadwick combined on the right and set up Dean West to curl in the second with his least favoured left foot.
Chadwick should have made it 3-0 five minutes later but shot wide from just inside the area, but Burnley were good value for their 2-0 half-time lead.
Gillingham sent on Marlon King for Nyron Nosworthy at the start of the second half, his first league outing since a knee operation ruled him out for seven months.
Tommy Johnson and King went close, but Burnley were always dangerous on the break and Blake and Chadwick both went close to adding to Burnley's advantage.
Burnley keeper Brian Jensen pulled off an important save to deny King with 15 minutes left only for the Clarets to surge down the other end and put the result beyond doubt. Blake ran from halfway and cut inside and fired under Brown to wrap up the points.
Brown did well to block an effort from sub Alan Moore who replaced namesake Ian who went of with a damaged side.
Gillingham both Andy Hessenthaler admitted: "It was a bad day at the office for us" while Burnley chief Stan Ternent said: "We had not been playing badly but we took our chances today, something that we had not done before."