Senior coach Alan Dickens insisted there was still plenty more to come from Newcastle Falcons despite scoring 11 tries during Sunday’s 73-12 home win over Caldy.

The Kingston Park triumph secured a Premiership Cup quarter-final place going into Sunday’s final pool game at Sale Sharks, although home advantage in the knock-out rounds is still to play for.

Speaking after the game, Dickens said: “We’ve had five bonus-point wins from five games so far during the pool stage, so we’ve got to be happy with that.

“Having said that, Caldy scored the first try today and we weren’t on it right at the start, so there were aspects of our game which still need work.

“Caldy have got a good maul and they’re well coached by Matt Cairns, so we always knew they would test us, and we had three players sent to the sin bin. That suggests our discipline needs some work, and they were all valid decisions from the referee.

“We’d talked during the week about being ruthless today, and I don’t think we quite got there. We need to learn from that, and if that was a Premiership game today playing half an hour with a man down, it’s going to cost us.

“We scored some good tries though, and in good number and in different ways, so overall we’ve got to be happy.”

With work still to do in locking down home advantage for the knock-out phase, Dickens said: “We knew that a win today would take us through to the quarter-finals, but we still need another point to secure home advantage.

“We’ll be going all-out at Sale Sharks next weekend, because a higher seeding would be great in terms of home advantage if we progress beyond the quarters.

“Sale will take it seriously as well because they still need to secure qualification, and we’ll definitely do the same. We won by one point when we played them at home, but going away to any Premiership club is obviously going to be a good test.”