Blues have ‘dinted’ our culture: Mal

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MAL Meninga says NSW have left a "dint" in Queensland's culture and he will take a calculated gamble by revamping the Maroons' attack to avert a 3-0 rout in Origin III.

Wary of NSW's confident revival, Meninga has put his squad on notice, saying the Maroons have a chink in their armour after slumping to their first series loss in nine years.

Not since the nightmare 2000 series have Queensland suffered a 3-0 rout and Meninga challenged his troops to uphold their cultural standards on Wednesday night.

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Origin's most successful coach insists he has not lost faith in Queensland's blueprint for success, but has warned NSW's uprising is testing the Maroons' character.

"At some stage we were going to be under the pump," Meninga said.

"I've tried to build a strong culture and that culture is still unbent – but there is a bit of a dint in it.

"I still believe in it, the players still believe in it and I think we have the right processes and systems in place.

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"In the past we were able to handle setbacks, but NSW were playing a lot better than they were five or six years ago.

"They are playing well at the moment, they were better than us in this series and that's why it's 2-0. I'm confident we can keep forging ahead, but we haven't handled that adversity this year when we've been confronted by it."

Meninga is referring primarily to the loss of Cooper Cronk, whose broken arm early in Origin I threw out Queensland's structures in their 12-8 loss in Brisbane.

The loss of Cooper Cronk was a big blow for Queensland. Picture: Peter Wallis Source: News Corp Australia

The Maroons coach has been equally disturbed by his team's poor execution, with Queensland having scored two tries in 160 minutes of Origin action.

Eager to kickstart the Maroons' attack, Meninga wants more enterprise on Wednesday.

Halves Johnathan Thurston and Cronk have been instructed to play deeper to give outside backs such as Greg Inglis more latitude to move.

Meninga also wants more bodies in motion to confuse the NSW defence and hopes the Maroons' pack lifts to give their halves the space to create.

"We've talked about that," Meninga said of Queensland's attacking shape.

"We need more numbers around those guys (the halves), we need to make sure they are protected.

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"There's no doubt NSW have a plan to get up in our faces, we need to play a bit deeper and wider.

"We have been executing that way at training so we'll see if it works for us."

Maroons enforcer Sam Thaiday says Origin III is a chance to prove the team Meninga built is not a spent force.

"It is very new territory for a lot of us," he said.

"We still have visions to win more series.

''The streak is over but this team and what we have built is nowhere near dead."

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