Gould asked serious questions of Melbourne’s recent form in the lead-up to Sunday’s Grand Final against the Cowboys.

Gould said the Victorians were lucky to have beaten Parramatta in week one of the finals before a dismal start against Brisbane last week.

"I haven't been a fan of the way the Melbourne Storm have been playing in recent times," Gould said on his Six Tackles with Gus podcast.

"I think they've sort of been overrated a little bit.

"I know they finished a long way in front in the Premiership ladder, but if you look at their two finals games, I think they were pretty fortunate in both," said Gould, a two-time premiership-winning coach.

"Parramatta should have beaten them on that day.

"You've got to be really physical, you've got to hold on to the ball. You've got to make sure they get it at their own end of the field and you've just got to be relentless on them.

"Don't get me wrong, they're the best team in the competition - but they're not unbeatable."

Smith said he wasn’t concerned about outside noise adding he was confident his side would get the job done on Sunday against a red hot North Queensland outfit.

"People were saying that our side may be one of the greatest sides they've seen," he said.

"We win by a couple of points against Parramatta and then all of a sudden they found a way to beat our side. Thoughts and opinions, they change that quickly, it's not funny.

"So we don't even bother listening to too much outside of our four walls.

"Again, in the fortnight's time when we played against the Broncos, our first half wasn't particularly good, especially in attack.

"We made some crucial errors and turned over a lot of cheap football to the Broncos.

"But in the second half we really knuckled down on what we needed to do and finished the game strongly."