NSW selector Bob McCarthy has rubbished claims the Blues will look to the future and name an experimental line-up for next month's State of Origin dead rubber at Suncorp Stadium.

Speculation mounted on Thursday that Blues selectors would make wholesale changes for Origin III after Queensland wrapped up the series with their first-ever win at Telstra Stadium on Wednesday night.

But McCarthy said the Blues would not be handing out sky blue jumpers for the sake of it as NSW look to avoid their first whitewash since 1995.

"We don't want to get thrashed up there - we want to go up there and win the game," McCarthy said.

"We won't worry about speculation - we'll worry about the real thing.

"We want to win every game and game three will be no different."

With nothing but pride to play for at Suncorp Stadium on July 4, several Blues players are believed to be facing the representative chop.

Critics have argued that the Blues need to start planning for the future with Queensland set to be an Origin force for many years to come with nine players in Wednesday night's line-up aged 25 or younger.

But McCarthy argued that selectors had already showed that they had one eye on 2008.

"We've already blooded eight guys this series - how many more do they want us to blood?" McCarthy said.

"We were in the game until the last five minutes, I was pretty happy with the way they played.

"We're not even worried about it now - we'll worry about it in three weeks time."

The Blues have already had eight debutants this season - Jarryd Hayne, Jarrod Mullen, Anthony Tupou, Brett White in game one while Ryan Hoffman, Greg Bird and Brett Stewart all played Origin for the first time on Wednesday night.

Only on four occasions since 1995 have the Blues selectors blooded more rookies - 11 players in 1995 and 1999 and nine players in 2002 and 2004.

Each time they rebounded to win the series the following year.

Current internationals Jamie Lyon, Luke Bailey, Brent Kite, Nathan Hindmarsh and Matt King are the ones under the most pressure and all will need big games over the next two weeks to retain their spots.

"If they make changes, they make changes," Hindmarsh told reporters.

"I had an opportunity to redeem myself in game two and I did not do it like I wanted to.

"Life goes on."

The Blues will need to find a replacement for five-eighth Braith Anasta, who is set to be sidelined for 4-6 weeks after undergoing surgery on Thursday on a fractured finger.

Blues skipper Danny Buderus will also be out to show more in attack with Wests Tigers rake Robbie Farah applying plenty of pressure for a call-up.

Buderus was one of NSW's best defenders but failed to make much of an impact with ball in hand, running for just 36 metres for the game.

He also failed to offer much play making support for halfback Brett Kimmorley, and with Anasta a passenger due to his first half hand injury, the Blues didn't ask too many questions of the Queensland defence.

Fullback Anthony Minichiello was also ruled out for up to four weeks, but stand-in Brett Stewart did more than enough to ensure he will be there for game three.

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