Ricky Stuart: NSW Blues' turn to face a test of honesty THE last thing NSW can do is panic. But that doesn't mean we should do nothing. Some of the suggestions are valid, some crazy, and all are well-intentioned. There is no doubt we have to improve significantly on what we did in Queensland, but it takes a careful, deliberate approach to fix it. We have to know what we're looking for. The first thing I would do is remind the players that we intimidated and dominated Queensland in the first game. That shows the players are capable of winning. But it raises the next question: why did it go wrong? The only way the correct answer can be found is if the players, coaching staff, support staff - everyone - sit down and ask themselves some honest questions. They have to evaluate themselves thoroughly. It has to start from the day they walked into Origin camp. Did they present themselves the right way? Did they get their preparation right before training sessions? Their recovery? Did they occupy themselves the right way during the down times? Stability has been our biggest success for the past three years. We need to keep that now when we need it most. There were some excuses for game two. Disruptions in the first few days of camp didn't help and, to be honest, they were self-inflicted. The players need to take it upon themselves to get into camp with their heads down prepared to work. Queensland started exactly the way they wanted to. They started pushing the play-the-ball speed and took the game to us. Our boys struggled to match it and from that early start Queensland snowballed it into a massive advantage, taking all the momentum and turning it into field position and points. And we know how hard that can be against the likes of Johnathan Thurston, Greg Inglis and Cam Smith. That pass from Thurston to Darius Boyd for a try was nothing but greatness. The Maroons are so good that they play what the opposition expects them to play and still make it work. The warning signs were fired 10 days before the game when Thurston and Smith both won man of the match awards in their final games before going in to camp. They were signalling their intent. So there were no surprises. We just didn't take heed of the warnings. The good news is that nobody remembers whether you win a series 3-0 or 2-1, they just remember who won. And there is still one game to go. For the next game, the Blues will have James Tamou available and more than likely Jarryd Hayne. That's two big pluses there. But none of it matters if they don't sit down and figure out where it went wrong. And it has to be an honest summation. There's no point looking at each other and promising each other that they have fixed whatever it was if they aren't honest about it. A big part of this Queensland team's success has been honesty. It's why they have been able to dig themselves out of whatever hole they have found themselves in, because it's not until you are honest about your shortcomings that you can truly begin to fix them. If the Blues aren't honest then all they're doing is putting a band-aid on an injury that will prove fatal. It won't work.