Last Saturday as the Bulldogs warmed up for the Ferguson Cup finals with a 74-0 win over Orange City, the performance highlighted many of the reasons why the side in blue and yellow has become such a force.

Bulldogs have experienced players like Fenton - the game against Orange City was her 50^th for the club - they have good depth, quality coaching staff to help them improve and tight bonds which not only exist within the women's squad, but across the entire ranks of the club.

It's an environment that Fenton, a member of Bulldogs' forward pack, relishes being part of.

"Shane Cantrill has been working with us a lot on the breakdown and he's really been trying to focus on us getting the pops back happening, Tuma [Aisake] fostered that, he loved the pops," Fenton said.

"Against City, I don't know what happened, everyone was just popping, everyone was in support, we went from side-to-side-to-side. It worked really well and I think that's just a trust thing, like I know Marita [Shoulders] is going to be right behind me if I have to go in for the ball.

"Some of the passes that we threw, just knowing each other were going to be there, they were unbelievable.

"We also have the benefit as well, our boys are really, really good to us. They get behind us, a lot of the time they'll come over and scrum against us, they really push us a lot.

"Our boys have always been really supportive and I think that's a big advantage."

READ MORE: Waterford hits 50 for Bulldogs and is wowed by young gun Windsor

READ MORE: Gullifer reaches 50 game milestone for the Bathurst Bulldogs

READ MORE: Bulldogs men hold Lions scoreless in last round of regular season

While a number of Fenton's team-mates got their first rugby union experience as a Bulldog, she already had a background in the sport when signing up in late 2017.

"I'd played rugby down in Wagga, I'd played for Ag College for a couple of years, then one of my good friends I'd played with down there, she moved up here and started playing for Bulldogs so I just got roped in from that," she said.

"It was actually up at City my first game, so that was fitting I got 50 there."

Bulldogs head into this weekend's final series as the minor premiers, having lost just one game during the regular season.

While that sort of record - as well as their premiership winning streak - might be expected to bring pressure with it, Fenton said that's not really something she feels.

She simply enjoys playing rugby alongside a good group of friends and the challenge of competing against constantly improving rivals.

"I was talking to my kids at school, I'm a high school teacher, and I said to them that if we get to the grand final this year it will be our fifth in a row. They were like 'What?', but being there now doesn't feel like it's a big deal anymore," she said.

"When you really think about it though it's pretty wild, we've won four grand finals in a row, that's crazy.

"The standard has improved unbelievably as well, when we played City, compared to last year they are a completely different side but they've grown so much and it was a really physical game."

As Bulldogs now prepare for another finals campaign, they carry with them the confidence that they have the depth and experience to get the job done.

"We're pretty lucky that we've got strength across our front and back, there are teams that are really good in the forwards and their backs struggle more or their backs are quite good but the forwards can't get the ball to them," she said.

"We're a pretty tight knit group which I think really helps us.

"We've also got 20 million players," she added with a laugh.

Our journalists work hard to provide local, up-to-date news to the community. This is how you can access our trusted content: