The talent-stacked Dragons finished the tournament with a modest 2-2 record but got it done in emphatic fashion when it mattered, overwhelming Brisbane 28-4 to claim the club's first piece of NRLW silverware.

It avenged a loss to the Broncos earlier in the tournament, but more significantly atoned for a 30-6 thrashing at the hands of the reigning premiers in last year's NRLW decider.

Complete redemption will have to wait until later this year, but Bremner said getting the job done under the bright lights will fill the Dragons with confidence when the full premiership resumes in September.

"The girls hated how the grand final went down last year," Bremner said.

"You always have game plan going into a big game like that and sometimes it's easy to go away from that when you're getting flustered and it's not working straight away.

"This year in the final we were able to hold our composure a little bit. With the experience we had in the team at Nines we had those cool heads to stay composed and say 'just keep working and it'll come'.

"That's exactly what happened, we ground it out and did the tough things, then the flood gates opened and we had some fun.

"The Broncos are an awesome team and they're still going to be the team to beat when it comes around to NRLW but we know they are beatable and beatable by the Dragons so we'll be working to do that again later in the year."

The Nines success came with the same core group of players that came together under coach Daniel Lacey for the inaugural NRLW season two years ago.

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It's taken some time to click, but Bremner says the Nines crowd was a reward for two solid years of work to turn an unquestionably talented roster into a cohesive unit.

"I think everyone knows you can have a team of superstars but that doesn't make a good team," Bremner said.

"There's a a lot that goes into having a good team and a lot of that is culture and the dynamic of the team working and everyone buying into what you want to achieve.

"Success doesn't work when even one person doesn't buy in but every single one of us bought in to what we wanted, not only for the Nines tournament, but going forward for the club and NRLW.

"We've got a really good group of girls there at the moment who all want the same thing. We're quite a young team besides a small handful of us and it's definitely given us a bit of confidence to see exactly what we can do."

Bremner also enjoyed an outstanding tournament on the personal front, returning from an 18-month layoff following the birth of son Reef.

"It's a bit surreal, I haven't really sat down and taken it all in yet," she said.

"Personally I feel that everything I've done in the journey to get back on the field has been worth it and it's so great to have that feeling because it's been a while."

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