The Dogs currently have three players – Josh Hill, Jarrod Harbrow and Brennan Stack – set to face the Crows, with Bombers Andrew Lovett and Jarrod Atkinson to join them.
The five players are all in Darwin ahead of Saturday's game, but while the Bulldogs will look at leaving theirs in the Top End for six days between the two TIO Stadium matches, the pair of Bombers will be spirited home.
"Harbrow, Brennan and Stack will stay in Darwin, and we've got a staff member who'll be going up there on Sunday night and they'll be doing some training at the Institute of Sport," Bulldogs coach Rodney Eade said earlier in the week.
"There's a program for them to follow and someone looking after them. There's no sense of them coming back on Sunday and then going back up again on Thursday."
Eade will look to play his three Indigenous players against the Bombers, while Matthew Knights is yet to make a decision on his.
"Andrew Lovett and Jarrod Atkinson are both going to play [for the All-Stars], which is superb, great for the club, and we're looking forward to watching them," Knights said.
"They will come back but it depends on whether we take them back up for next week.
"We'll see how they pull up on Monday and how they recover from the game. If they play 80 minutes this week, we'll have a look at that early Monday.
"They'll come back and we'll see how they go."
Eade said the Dogs' other Aboriginal player in Malcolm Lynch travelled north for the Indigenous camp but won't take any part in the match.
"Lynch had chronic hamstring problems last year, so as part of his program he's not quite ready to play yet," he said.
"We'd certainly like him to play the next week but he won't be right then either.
"He hasn't done any flat-out sprinting at this stage."
He agreed with Knights in saying the opportunity to figure in the All-Stars game is one his players shouldn't miss.
"All three of them have had very good pre-seasons so they've had enough work in their bodies so they can cope with the game," he said.
"The game is only 80 minutes long so I wouldn't imagine they would be getting more than 40 minutes anyway.
"They've got to play footy sometime and as young guys, they'll enjoy the experience."
Essendon Indigenous stars Nathan Lovett-Murray and Alwyn Davey have already returned to Melbourne and were running water during the Bombers' intra-club match on Friday.
