You would neither have been in a position to challenge for the flag, nor to win it without Jolly.
Do you honestly think you'd be where you are today with Fraser as the number 1 ruck still?
A star ruckman is both a star midfielder and star KPP.
I said that you have to have a competent one, which Josh Fraser isn't.
Jolly is a good solid ruckman, but he's no star of the competition. He's never been AA, never won a B&F and never polled more than 3 Brownlow votes in a season.
That is the only level of ruckman that is required.
A guy like Dean Cox, Aaron Sandilands or whoever else is nice, but not really required to be a great side - Look at all the great sides who had just "above average" ruckman, rather than stars.
Look at our game against Freo in Rd 8 - Aaron Sandilands had 25 disposals, 43 hitouts and 2 goals, basically rucking the whole game by himself. Darren Jolly and Cameron Wood combined for 20 disposals, 30 hitouts and 2 goals, which was basically enough to neutralise the production of Sandilands.
We won the game by 6 goals, and were up by as much as 55 points by 22 minutes into the last quarter before Freo pegged it back. In that game, Travis Cloke's 17 possession, 5 goal effort was much, much more damaging than what Sandilands did.