Both amongst the finest to pull on a boot, but really, it goes like this:
Qlders: "Johns is a druggo!"
NSW: "Smith is a smug arrogant dirty chicken winging, wrestling salary cap cheating merkin."
As an organiser, Smith has a tiny edge - he leads a team in the style Bellamy builds so well. Pressure builder.
As a pure freak, Johns has it in spades. Nobody, NOBODY has the ability to change the flow of a game single handedly the way he could.
And as for the Storm fans who point to the loss of Smith for the 2008 GF - seriously, think about it. Instead of 40-0 it would have been who knows? Perhaps 32-14 or the like. Manly were on fire and deeply motivated after last year, the Storm had been bashed week after week in extremely physical games and were just busted. Smith or no Smith - the Storm were never in it.