Woolf: More to come | McNamara: We weren't good enough

Kristian Woolf believes there is still more to come from St Helens after they opened the defence of their Betfred Super League title with a 28-8 win over Catalans Dragons.

England winger Tommy Makinson grabbed two tries and Joey Lussick and Konrad Hurrell both scored on their debuts, while James Roby and Lewis Dodd also crossed the try-line at Totally Wicked Stadium.

Winger Fouad Yaha had the distinction of scoring the first try of the season to give the Dragons an early lead, but they were quickly over-run and collapsed towards the end after prop Dylan Napa was sent off on his Super League debut.

"It's Round 1, so you can't get too excited," Woolf said. "There is a lot of footy to be played, but it gives us a lot of confidence.

"I said before the game we were in a good position to attack the season and I think we showed that tonight. It's a great little block for us to build off and we're only going to get better from here.

"It was a good tough physical game of footy and, when the game got flowing, there was some real positives, and I thought our blokes put on some outstanding tries.

"But there were periods of real stop-start. We want people to come and watch our game and we want to entertain and we've got to do something about this slowing down and stopping and holding down in the ruck, it just made it ugly at times."

Woolf was pleased with all his new players, especially former Leeds Rhinos centre Hurrell, who created one try for James Roby and scored one himself from an interception.

"I thought Koni was exceptional," Woolf said. "I remember when we signed him, I said, 'If we can get him fit and get him happy, we can get a real performance out of him'.

"He's got to back that up next week, but he was great out of