North Melbourne will welcome back some valuable midfield grunt to its VFL side on Saturday, with Paul Ahern, Dom Tyson and Jy Simpkin all named in the 27.

The squad was named on Thursday night, presented by Intuitive Finance, and features 11 AFL-listed players.

Taylor Garner will be looking to push his case for an AFL call-up, as will Tom Campbell, who has been in fine form in recent weeks.

View the full squad below.