The pain of last year's play-off failure is still raw for the Mystics as they prepare for this year's ANZ Netball Championship.
There's some new and old faces among the five changes to the Auckland-based franchise who will host the Southern Steel to open the 2016 competition on Friday night.
There's no hiding just how hard Anna Harrison has worked to comeback to top level netball a year after giving birth to daughter Georgia.
"There are phases when you've had a kid when you're fine sitting on the couch, then you start to get the itch again," she says.
And at 18 Holly Fowler is the same age the then-Anna Scarlett was when she burst onto the national scene.
"I realise that now I'm that old person, and I remember that person very clearly," Harrison says.
"I know what my role is now."
And Harrison still remembers who had that role when she joined the Otago Rebels in 2002.
"Janine Southby, who is now the Silver Ferns coach, which makes me feel really old. I was fresh faced coming in, and now I'm that guy."
The Mystics host the Steel on Friday night to open the trans-Tasman Championship -- a side coached by a Debbie Fullers former understudy.
"A lot of classified information went south with Noeline," Fullers says. "But it's all part of her getting the opportunity to have a head coaching role and it's wonderful for her."
It's the Magic as much as the Steel who are on the Mystics' minds, with the loss in last year's New Zealand Conference final providing plenty of motivation.
There was some consolation, with the Mystics winning this month's pre-season shootout.
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