Hannah Dunn's Gold Coast Suns relish AFLW underdog tag leading into Fremantle Dockers clash

So is the Gold Coast Suns midfielder feeling the pressure? Not at all.

Dunn says the heat rests solely on the Fremantle Dockers as the unbeaten outfit looks to edge one step closer to a maiden premiership at Fremantle Oval on Saturday.

Now she is desperate to inspire an upset against an outfit boasting the league's most relentless tackler in Kiara Bowers, and a trio of former All-Australians in Ebony Antonio, Kara Antonio and Gemma Houghton.

"It's pretty intimidating playing someone at the top of the ladder who is undefeated, but we've got nothing to lose and they have got everything to lose," Dunn said.

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"Hopefully we can go over there and get the job done. Going through the season, obviously there was a couple of games to go and they hadn't played Melbourne or Carlton who sit below them on the ladder.

"They've had a fairly easy run up until now. Any time a club goes through undefeated, there is a lot of pressure on them.

"You see it all the time, even in AFL Canberra, there have been times when a club goes through undefeated in a whole season and lost either the grand final or the preliminary final to get through.

"We're sitting in a good position being the underdogs."

The final two rounds of the regular season have been scrapped in favour of an eight-team finals series boasting the top four sides from each conference.

It has made for a wild week - not least of which for coaching staff given the Suns were deep in preparations for a clash with the Adelaide Crows.

But now Dunn is relishing the opportunity to play in a sudden-death finals format which has all eight sides effectively three wins away from a premiership win.

The high-pressure scenario is not a bad alternative considering Dunn and the Suns thought their season was over when uncertainty hovered over the competition.

"It's been a bloody roller coaster of emotions," Dunn said.

"It's the first time the club has ever been in the finals which is pretty cool. A lot of people wrote us off at the start of the season to get the wooden spoon.

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"Obviously the season was cut short and anything could have happened after these next two home and away games.

"But the fact we got ourselves to the position on the ladder we did, and now we're in finals, it's pretty special.

"I've really enjoyed it. The culture here actually reminds me a lot of the culture back home at Queanbeyan. It's like one big family.

"The girls are like my sisters, and all the staff are like aunties and uncles. It's one big family."

It's one Dunn feels as thought she fits right into. And for all she knows, she and Queanbeyan teammate Lexi Hamilton could end up meeting a Tigers teammate down the track.

Jacqueline Parry is playing for Melbourne against a GWS outfit boasting a handful of Canberrans in the squad.

Two former Queanbeyan coaches in Cheyne Webster and Chris Clifton already find themselves on a collision course in the semi-final, with both men holding assistant coaching roles with North Melbourne and Collingwood respectively.

Now Dunn has a chance to turn a preliminary final into something of a Queanbeyan reunion pending other results, and she is determined to make the most of her chance.

"If I ended up going to one of the more established clubs, it would have been a bit more difficult to crack a spot in the midfield in a couple of those clubs," Dunn said.

"I'd be waiting behind a fair few really decent players. The fact I have got to play, the fact the coaches have full faith in what I can do as do the girls, it has been an easy transition.

"Being fairly nervous before round one, as soon as the ball went up I even thought to myself 'this is just another game of footy'.

"I've really enjoyed it and I've found it not as daunting as I thought it was going to be."