Mal Meninga came away from a meeting with the NRL match review panel on Monday impressed by how difficult their "mind numbing" job is, but he still didn't regret his scathing column almost a month ago.

Panel members Greg McCallum, Bradley Clyde and Peter Louis had agreed to drop defamation action against Meninga after the Queensland State of Origin coach had agreed to sit in on one of their weekly video reviews of NRL matches.

That was after he'd slammed their citing of star Maroons halfback Johnathan Thurston and the five-week suspension of back-rower Dave Taylor for a lifting tackle, claiming inconsistency.

In a newspaper column published after the Origin series, Meninga also labelled unnamed people within NSW rugby league as "rats and filth" trying to bring down his team which won a record sixth straight series title.

Meninga said Monday's meeting in Sydney gave him a better understanding of the match video review committee's work.

"I think it was excellent actually ... Greg and his team took me through the processes undertaken by the review committee and it was a very positive and proactive experience, so I really enjoyed being down here today," Meninga said.

Asked if he regretted his newspaper column, Meninga said: "I don't regret anything. I'm happy with everything at the moment.

"Out of something that I guess was reasonably negative, there's a positive experience.

"Today was a communicative process that we should probably have more of in our game.

"It made me more familiar and made me more understand the process.

"It is a pedantic process to be honest with you. A lot of the things these guys have to put up with on a week-to-week basis is mind numbing.

"So I don't envy what they do, it's a hard job ... today actually reinforced that they have a difficult job."

Meninga was asked if he'd apologised to any members of the match review panel.

"There's no need for there to be any apologies, it was an open welcoming for me to come down and review the process," he said.

Meanwhile Meninga said he hoped his former Canberra teammate and NSW State of Origin counterpart Ricky Stuart backed-up for the Blues in 2012.

The pair had a war of words during Origin but Meninga said they are friends again.

"I just hope that Ricky's involved in some capacity next year, what he did this year for NSW was excellent," he said.

"It's been a highly dramatised and publicised series this year and it's been fantastic for the game of rugby league and I hope he continues to be involved.

"We patched up after the game ... I don't know where these innuendos come from about feuding and all of that sort of stuff, it's certainly not true."

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