Blues coach Brad "Freddy" Fittler was more critical than Maroons mentor Kevin Walters of the referees' performance in their post-game State of Origin assessments despite fans blowing up on social media about blunders which appeared to favour NSW.
Walters said his team had to learn from the 4-1 penalty count that went against his team.
"I thought they did a good job," Fittler said.
"Watching the Queensland guys come off the line, they're just really good at slowing us down and coming off their line. They've been doing it for a long time. They're really good at it.
"In the past it's been obvious, but tonight as a team they did a really good job of it. I'd love to get our team to do that. I thought their back five or back three got out of their end a lot easier than ours.
"I don't know if there were many decisions that the referees had to really call on.
