Outgoing coach Kevin Sheedy is actively involved in the recruiting process this year, with his former club Essendon and its bevy of tall stocks garnering particularly strong interest from GWS.
Following the departure of Israel Folau and the failure to land Kurt Tippett, the Giants have plenty of money to throw around at potential targets.
GWS also missed out on Matthew Kreuzer, Jake Carlisle and Dale Thomas last year, but the AFL's newest club is confident some big names will soon be heading to western Sydney.
Judging by their targeted needs, Matthew Leuenberger, Tom Bellchambers, Stewart Crameri, Scott Gumbleton, Max Bailey and Cale Hooker could all be in GWS' sights.
Ruckmen Daniel Gorringe, Robbie Warnock and Shaun Hampson, forwards John Butcher, Robbie Tarrant and Lachie Hansen, plus defenders James Frawley, Tayte Pears and Luke Delaney could all be sounded out.
"There will be nine or 10 players off-contract at the end of the year," Sheedy said in Sydney on Friday.
"Our club will be sitting down talking to their managers obviously.
"We'll have an opportunity to pick up three good players. We're desperate for a ruckman, desperate for a key forward and a key back.
"We have to perform better and find two or three extra experienced players for this club.
"We've got X amount of money there we didn't use on Tippett, after Israel Folau left, and that will create an enormous amount of interest in the type of players we could go after.
"Obviously the teams around Australia would be pretty careful about who they let go out of contract, but that's our job, we're here to get this club up and be super competitive."
Asked about the potential age bracket of players they would target, Sheedy said: "Age never worried me that much to be honest.
"If Paddy Ryder came up, I'd say I'd look at Paddy Ryder, obviously he's a very good player.
"They're a very, very tall club at the moment Essendon. They can't even fit Joe Daniher in."
Steve Silvagni and Graeme Allan are largely credited with compiling the GWS list, but Sheedy has flagged a potential role for himself once he hands the coaching reins to Leon Cameron.
"I'm a bit more heavily involved in recruiting at the present time than I have been the last couple of years," he said.
"Considering I stay at the club, I'll get more heavily involved in recruiting, there's no doubt about that.
"We'll look at what players we have that will make it and which ones we don't think will make it and cut off the list.
"But there will be players there for us to be able to get.
"Kurt Tippett we didn't get, we could have, but the Swans ended up getting him, which was unfortunate because he's a very, very good player.
"Hopefully we get the next one because that's what we've got to do to actually build the AFL in Sydney."
James Dampney is a reporter for AFL.com.au. Follow him on Twitter: @AFL_JD
