ESSENDON'S 10 banned players are set to make their long-awaited returns to official club training on Monday morning as pre-season gets back underway.

Meanwhile, former Bombers big man Jake Carlisle will also finally resume his stalled career when St Kilda's first-to-fourth-year players come back for day one.

Port Adelaide stars Paddy Ryder and Angus Monfries are also free to train with the Power.

However, none of the players banned for anti-doping offences can be involved in official club promotion, marketing, media or other non-training purposes until 12am on November 14.

Other clubs that didn't play finals last season – including Collingwood, Melbourne and Fremantle – will also hit the training track with their younger players returning to action on Monday.

The Bombers' returning 10 players – headlined by skipper Jobe Watson, Dyson Heppell, Michael Hurley and Cale Hooker – will come back two weeks earlier than required and join the first-to-fourth-year players at Tullamarine.

It will be the first time they have returned to train since the Court of Arbitration for Sport found 34 past and present Essendon players guilty of using banned substance Thymosin Beta-4 in January.

The players' return comes as Watson weighs up whether to make a submission to the AFL Commission to keep his 2012 Brownlow Medal.

Watson won the medal in the same season as the club's controversial supplements regime took place.

The star midfielder has met with club officials to discuss his course of action, however there has so far been no indication whether Watson will front the League when it decides his fate on November 15.

If Watson is stripped of the Brownlow or chooses to give it back, it could be handed to joint runners-up Sam Mitchell and Trent Cotchin, or no winner might be declared.

AFL CEO Gillon McLachlan, who won't sit on the AFL Commission panel deciding the fate of Watson's medal, has previously said making that call would be "as hard a decision (as) they will ever have to make."