The Northern Blues have welcomed back three first-year Carlton players in the Bertocchi 23 this Saturday against Williamstown.
David Cuningham, Jesse Glass-McCasker and Jack Silvagni all return to the line-up after missing the last fortnight through respective injuries.
Ciaran Sheehan will also make his return to action after he was named on the extended bench alongside Glass-McCasker and Silvagni, meaning the three men could play either VFL or Development football this weekend.
The quartet is part of a group of 19 Blues in an extended 31-man squad for the match against the Seagulls this weekend.
The squad, which will be cut down in conjunction with Carlton’s finalised team on Friday, includes all seven members of the AFL side’s extended bench for this Sunday’s match against Port Adelaide.
Four of Dylan Buckley, Ed Curnow, Andrejs Everitt, Nick Graham, Michael Jamison, Jed Lamb and Simon White are due to come out of the squad - the final 23 will be announced prior to the match on Saturday.
White is in line to make his return from a corked shin last week, where he was a late out for Jamison before Carlton’s stirring Round 7 win against Collingwood.
Daniel Gorringe, Kieran McGuinness, Tim Totevski and Tom Wilson have all come out of the side which lost heavily last week to Casey through injury.
Club stalwart Brent Bransgrove - who comes into the squad for his 99th game - returns after being unavailable last week, as does Tim Jones, who was a late exclusion against Casey with hamstring tightness.
The Northern Blues' Round 8 squad. (Graphic by the Northern Blues)
Northern Knight Sam Peet is in line to make his debut after being named as the 23rd man, with Tyler Roos - who has spent the last fortnight in the role - included on an extended bench.
Williamstown has lost Cameron Lockwood through suspension, but have named the in-form goal-kicking duo of Sam Dunell (leading the VFL goal-kicking) and Arryn Siposs.
Former Northern Blue Nick Meese - who has averaged 56 hitouts in the last three weeks - comes out of the Williamstown side, with Ayce Cordy likely to shoulder the majority of the ruck burden against Cameron Wood and Matthew Korcheck.
