THE ARRIVAL of Ryan Griffen and Joel Patfull will make Greater Western Sydney walk a bit taller in 2015.

That's the belief – and hope – of GIANTS midfielder Stephen Coniglio as Griffen, winner of two Western Bulldogs best and fairest awards and Patfull, twice the winner at the Brisbane Lions prepare for their first season after joining the club during last year's trade period.

Speaking to AFL.com.au after being confirmed as an Australia Post AFL Multicultural Ambassador for another year, Coniglio lauded the leadership both players have brought to the club.

"It's on and off the field. They've won best and fairests and you just walk taller with them around," he said.

Their arrival at the club means the GIANTS, entering their fourth season in the AFL, now have experience across pretty much every line in the side. "We're not just relying on Phil Davis, Callan Ward and Heath Shaw to be the more mature ones. In terms of experience, we are becoming similar to other clubs."

Coniglio, 21, has played 44 games in three seasons for the GIANTS and apart from an ankle niggle before Christmas has enjoyed a full pre-season. He missed the last seven games of 2014 because of shoulder and wrist injuries.

GWS won two of its last three games for the year and Coniglio was a spectator for both, hence his anxiety to get back on the park this year.

"It's been a long pre-season, but I'm right into it and I'm feeling good … but it is still a long time until we play games.

The extended summer, brought about by the delayed start to the season because of the cricket World Cup, has been a taxing affair at all clubs.

At the GIANTS, the build-up before Christmas was towards the training camp on the Sunshine Coast, while so far this month it has been about the variety introduced by new fitness coach David Joyce.

The GIANTS have been talked up externally as an outside chance for the finals, but according to Coniglio the stated goal is one of continued improvement.

A key to that is depth, with up to 30 players now ready and able to play senior footy and not even Coniglio a walk-up guaranteed starter for the season opener against St Kilda.

"If you look across the competition it's not best the 22, it's the best 28-30 players that you have, and I now think we have that right. It means we're getting better and competing in games for longer," he said.

"And that's the challenge and the best bit about Leon (coach Leon Cameron). Nobody's safe, we have some quality players we have traded in but nobody's safe. You need to cement a place in the side and you want that challenge to be safe in the side.

"I wouldn’t be playing in the AFL if I didn’t want that challenge," he said.