Statistics compiled heading into the final quarter of the season show that Dolly has been in the starting line-up for 32 of the 33 competitive games that Sundowns have played to date.
This is remarkable for an attacking player who is only in his first season with a title-chasing club where prospects with relatively similar profiles notoriously battle to establish themselves right away.
The 23-year-old only missed the league opener against Platinum Stars after pulling his hamstring in the MTN8 defeat to Bloemfontein Celtic in the very first game that The Brazilians played this season.
Dolly has also started all of the last 31 games that Sundowns have played in all competitions – a rare achievement for any 23-year-old.
Dolly’s starts translate to a massive scale of 97 percent at this juncture.
He has scored seven goals to date – three in the league, two in the Telkom KnockOut Cup, one in the CAF Champions League and one in the Nedbank Cup – a scorcher against Highlands Park while he has also provided a hand both directly and indirectly in plenty of the goals that have been scored this season.
Sundowns coach Pitso Mosimane will feel the measure of influence that Dolly has had in his first season with The Brazilians justifies why he should have been heavily involved with Bafana Bafana over the last year instead of the national Under-23 squad.
Injuries and suspensions have fortunately not affected the multilingual Westbury-born star whose arrival at Chloorkop at the beginning of the season was greeted with pessimism by some of the cyberspace fans who predicted that he will spend more time on the bench and stands instead of the pitch on match day.
Thabo Nthethe is second to Dolly having missed two games so far this season proving just how much of a role the stand-in captain has played in the less glamorous central defence position, which tends to be disregarded despite being important to the functionality of a team.