What do you do after being touched up like New South Wales were?

I'm sure Laurie Daley will dwell slightly, it's his job to look at what happened and to act accordingly but the Blues have some serious issues that will need to be ironed out before 2016 rolls around.

As I said a day after the demolition, Queensland were simply superb, as team of such talented players should be when pushed to that level. New South Wales might have struggled to get close to the Maroons on any day of the week, such was the level at which the Maroons played at, but the way the Blues crumbled would be Daley's chief concern.

The first try for Queensland came in rather fluffy fashion as the ball hit the ground and what looked to be a planned move became a scramble. Queensland first of all showed greater intent in that scramble and then made the most of an overlap with Dane Gagai scoring in the corner.

On any other night, I reckon New South Wales or any rugby league team would have accepted that try and put it in the 'shit happens' basket. You get up and get back into the game, you couldn't do much about it so whatever.

But from that point on New South Wales just didn't look in the contest at all and if anything, it looked like they had lost the game at that point. The enthusiasm and aggression (controlled aggression unlike the agro we saw at the end from that kiwi/grub James Tamou) that was a staple of the Blues performances previously in the series vanished and they simply collapse into the fidel position.

The main area where New South Wales were talked up was their young forwards with the likes of David Klemmer, Aaron Woods, Boyd Cordner and Josh Jackson largely ineffective in game three, ineffective/well below their previous standards. While this definitely contributed to the loss as they couldn't get down Queensland'd end of the field, it's the sort of game that you have to feel was needed for these lads.

We all go back to when the Maroons were forced to blood a whole crop of youngsters back in the day, it's stuff of folklore, and there's definitely hope for Blues fans.

These Blues forwards will be better off for that result, tasting what it's like to be dominated physically and skillfully, but Daley also has many decisions to make regarding his roster.

Will Hopoate is a class player, but does he offer x-factor? Queensland can carry solid wingers who barely play on the wing for their NRL sides because there's game-breaking ability across the park and their job is to just finish off the work inside them. The Blues lacked any x-factor all series besides Josh Dugan and then in patches Michael Jennings and Klemmer, so I'd rather have a winger with a bit more pizzazz than Hopoate.

Which leads me to the halves and the lack of a dynamic ball runner to come off the bench. Who knows why Daley didn't select Blake Austin, or even someone like Josh Reynolds and I think that registers as a 'L' for Daley. Sure it's all good to not select Austin for game one, but after game one it was clear that New South Wales needed another player who could create a chance from nothing and to not even consider Austin off the bench for 10 minutes late in a half was a bit weird.

Why Andrew Fifita was given the flick after game one was also puzzling and you'd imagine that he will be a key man over the next few years.

I think Daley got a bit caught up in the 'tough footy' type of mindset. Compared to Queensland who have the game's best playmakers which means they can be gritty and create a bunch of chances, New South Wales were just gritty. Tough indeed but unable to score points when it mattered in games one and three.

The halves situation is troubling as we will probably see changes made next year and the rotating door will continue. Mitchell Pearce deserves his jersey, I'm not sure about Trent Hodkinson but if he's playing the best footy for the Knights next season then I wouldn't be against these two going around again. Following on from the angle above, the halves suffered from a lack of options who they could count on to be hitting that hole over and over again or a fallback option should they come under pressure.

I don't think anyone from the Blues over the age of 25 is safe to be honest. If I were a New South Wales fan, I'd want to see a whole lot of youngsters brought in at the same time and given the chance to grow into a Blues jersey. There is a crop of youngsters who are probably a year or two away from being ready but you can't tell me that a team consisting of Matt Moylan, Dylan Walker, James Roberts, Adam Reynolds, Bryce Cartwright, Nathan Peats and Tariq Sims along with Klemmer, Fifita, Cordner, Jackson and Trent Merrin, isn't exciting.