The Sunshine Coast Lightning is in town - minus trio of big names - for the first of two pre-season matches in the South.
Captain Wendy Frew is the most surprising inclusion, having battled back from an Achilles rupture to be available.
Silver Ferns Te Paea Selby-Rickit and Shannon Francois will both be available, although on a minutes restriction before the Commonwealth Games.
The Games will hamper the Lightning, however.
It will be without Australian players Caitlin Bassett and Stephanie Wood, as well as England's Geva Mentor.
However, it remains a team possessing quality.
That includes South African Karla Pretorious and Kelsey Browne, sister of Diamonds midcourter Maddie Browne.
Tomorrow's match will be the first of two, with the second to be played in Invercargill on Friday night.
It will be the second year the sides have met in the pre-season, with the Steel having travelled to the Sunshine Coast last year.
The connection came as a result of former Steel coach Noeline Taurua having taken the reins at the Lightning.
With the Steel having won last year's New Zealand domestic league, the match is theoretically a clash of the champions.
However, with the loss of Jhaniele Fowler-Reid and Jane Watson, this is a Steel side with a new look to it.
Newcomers Dani Gray and Olivia Bates will both make their first appearances as fully contracted players.
The team's training partners - who include Kate and Georgia Heffernan and Taneisha Fifita - are likely to be in action too.
The Steel is happy with ticket sales, having sold about 700.
Only one stand would be brought down, leaving a capacity of about 1400.
A big walk-up crowd is expected, as is traditionally the case in Dunedin.
