NSW coach Craig Bellamy has accused the Blues of dropping their bundle and panicking after they fell to their equal worst loss in State of Origin history.

Bellamy indicated he was upset at the refereeing performance of Tony Archer and Queensland's pre-match pressure on the whistle-blower but offered no excuses for the 30-0 shut-out.

Not since Jack Gibson's 1989 Blues fell 36-6 at the old Lang Park has a NSW side suffered so badly on the scoreboard in the 29 seasons of Origin.

Bellamy, who masterminded an emphatic 18-10 victory in game one three weeks ago in Sydney, was disappointed his team reacted badly to three Queensland penalty goals which stretched the lead from 12-0 to 18-0 within the 10 minutes either side of half-time.

"Certainly the scoreline shocks us all," he said.

"We didn't get the start that we got in game one and they got the jump on us there.

"At 12-0 there were a couple of long-distance (Queensland) tries and I wasn't overly worried about that."

But he said the Blues were mentally affected by the three successive two-point additions kicked by radar-boot Johnathan Thurston, who finished the match with a personal haul of 14 points.

"That's unheard of in Origin to get three penalties in kicking range in a row," Bellamy said.

"The body language dropped there and we panicked a bit."

Bellamy was bemused that Archer found a total of 16 penalties (9-7 to Queensland) after awarding only six in game one.

He hinted a Queensland outcry about the way NSW won the ruck in the opener and slowed down the Maroons ball had seemed to pressure Archer.

Blues skipper Danny Buderus remonstrated with the referee after a number of ruck penalties while Bellamy also turned his attention on the Maroons jumping the gun on the play-the-ball from a skinny 10m.

Bellamy said he'd have to look at the video before deciding whether to take his complaints to referees boss Robert Finch before the decider on July 2 in Sydney.

But in a thinly-veiled swipe at the Queensland camp, he said he didn't have the energy to mount a campaign to ensure a more level playing field for game three.

"I don't know if I want to use that much energy up in the next five days," he said.

"There may have been a real (focus) on the ruck (by Queensland) but I thought the 10 wasn't policed so well either."

"There wasn't much room in the 10, they were up in our faces."

Asked whether he felt the squeaky well got the oil tonight, Bellamy said: "It certainly didn't hurt."

Buderus firmly believed NSW could bounce back in the decider, saying "Origin is all mental".

"We have to stick solid and next time we're down on our home turf," he said.

Bellamy praised the non-stop performance of Buderus as well as the efforts of other "senior players".

Despite poor handling throughout, particularly in a terrible scrappy second half, the coach believed there were positives to come from the loss.

"We had some reasonable field position early in the game but to be fair we never looked like crossing the line," he said.

Hampering the Blues attack was the fact halfback Peter Wallace, who limped off with 10 minutes to play, injured his leg in the first 20 minutes.

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