The Bay of Plenty first five-eighth, who will line up to face Otago at Mt Maunganui on Friday night, will come face to face with many of his Highlanders team-mates from earlier this season.
The match will also be a meeting of many former pupils of Rotorua Boys High School.
Of the Otago forward pack, lock Tom Donnelly, and loose forwards Steven Setephano and Craig Newby all attended the school.
On the Bay side, there are many players who attended the school, including Delany, who played with Donnelly and Setephano in the school's First XV.
The school also numbers among its former pupils United States amateur golf champion Danny Lee.
Delany (26) said it was always good to meet up with players from school and he was hoping he would have the bragging rights come late Friday night.
It will also be the last game in the Bay of Plenty colours for halfback Jamie Nutbrown, who has been granted a release to join Welsh club Ospreys.
"Jamie will be a big loss. He's a real team man and we'll miss him. But that is the way things go in professional rugby. Opportunities come along and you have to take them," Delany said.
The Bay of Plenty union negotiated a fee to allow Nutbrown an early release from his contract which ran until the end of this season.
Delany said the season had started off well for the side, winning its first four games, but the wheels fell off in a heavy loss to Wellington.
"Last weekend we had the territory and the ball but just the last pass did not stick and we paid for that."
Predicted by many pundits to be propping up the Air New Zealand Cup table, Bay of Plenty sits in third place, with Otago back in sixth.
"You want to go out there and play a bit of footy and prove the critics wrong. No-one wants to get hammered. It is pretty important to us to play well the whole season."
Delany played nine games for the Highlanders this year, as a draft player, and said he was just taking every day as it comes.
If he was picked again for the side he would head south.
He had not heard from Highlanders coach Glenn Moore.
"It was a good time down there. We had a lot of fun and we developed a good culture.
"I didn't know what to expect but the guys made me fell really welcome."
