Perth Glory coach Dave Mitchell will be giving Andy Todd, Jamie Harnwell and Mile Sterjovski until the last minute to prove their fitness for Sunday's clash with Wellington at nib Stadium.
Todd hasn't played this season as he's struggled with knee surgery and illness, while both Harnwell (calf) and Sterjovski (ankle) were injured less than a fortnight ago, but have made quicker than expected recoveries.
Although Mitchell has named all three to play against Wellington, the coach still has to cut his squad by three players before Sunday's game.
With all three returning players regular starters when fit, Mitchell said he would cast his eye over them one last time at Saturday training before deciding whether to risk them in the starting side.
"It's a good situation to be in, (having such good) players come back," Mitchell said on Friday.
"(But) are they probably a hundred percent fit, as in match fitness?"
"Andy Todd's certainly not, so it's a situation where you've just got to monitor him and again tomorrow we'll have a look at him again to see if he starts and if not, he might be on the bench."
"Tomorrow we'll finally decide what we do tomorrow. We've looked at certain positions, we've put certain players in different roles and now we'll go have some lunch and we'll talk about the different scenarios that we've come up with at training and decide tomorrow," he said.
With only the suspended Michael Baird unavailable this weekend, the Glory are fielding one of their strongest squads of the season.
But they still may need all hands on deck to combat a Wellington side determined to take some points on the road and make up for last week's loss to Brisbane Roar.
Mitchell said the Glory would definitely have to be wary of Wellington's dangerous flank players, Paul Ifill and former Perth player Leo Bertos, but said he didn't want his side to be too defensive on its home patch.
"We're at home so we want to maybe have a go at them," Mitchell said.
"Obviously you're worried about the concerns they have in the team, but you're trying to base yourself on what you've got, the quality you've got and we're more basically working on that."
"We've got to try and get them (Ifill and Bertos) on the back foot, so make them do a bit of work defensively."
"But obviously they're good players and if they get time on the ball they'll cause you problems."
"But it's just how we go about that, we've certainly worked on certain things this week but we want to get them defending, not us," he said.