Nate Myles faces a suspension of up to eight games, Scott Prince may be out for the remainder of the season and Ben Cross is looking at a month on the sidelines.

That was the wash-up from one of the most brutal Origin matches in recent seasons as the Maroons recorded just their second win at ANZ Stadium to become the most dominant team of the interstate contest since the great Queensland teams of the late 1980s.

And the man who led the Maroons to their past series three-peat in 1987-88-89, Wally Lewis, predicted the current side would eclipse that record next year after they hung on to win last night, despite being down to just one player on the bench at one stage.

"The boys are pretty proud and it's going to be a bonus for rugby league in Queensland with all the young blokes coming up," Lewis said in a packed Maroons dressing room as captain Cameron Smith posed for photos with Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan.

"If you ask these guys, I think you'll find that they're determined it will be four in a row and I think the coach has indicated he will be with them again next year, so the future is pretty bright."

Lewis was the first person in the Queensland dressing room when a dejected Prince came from the field in the 15th minute after suffering a broken arm that is expected to sideline him until the second week of the finals - if his Gold Coast team survives that long.

He will have scans today, but Titans chief executive Michael Searle revealed he had already been booked for surgery tomorrow if necessary.

"That was him, he wanted to get the process started straight away," said Searle, who is resigned to being without his skipper for 10 to 12 weeks. "It's a challenge for him but he fought so hard to get back into the side."

There was further carnage in the Maroons camp before the game was over, with second-rower Michael Crocker and Myles both forced to the sideline with concussion. Myles was placed on report for a 48th-minute lifting tackle on Cross that sparked one of several melees during the match, and the match review committee late last night charged him with a grade-three dangerous throw.

With his Sydney Roosters club declining to have the case heard after the game, Myles now has the opportunity to enter an early guilty plea and if he does will be suspended for six matches. Should he choose to fight the charge and is found guilty, he will be suspended for eight matches.

Cross, who has a suspected broken thumb as well as a knee injury, revealed that Myles had apologised to him after the match.

"The neck's all right," Cross said. "Still in the right spot. Mate, it happened on the field and what happens between me and Nate stays on the field. He had a word to me after the game and said he was sorry. In the heat of the battle, I lost it a little bit. As you normally would in Origin."

Meanwhile, NSW captain Danny Buderus told referee Tony Archer on the field that Myles should have been sent off, saying: "What have you got to do to be sent off. I know it's Origin, but that was a very dangerous tackle."

Blues coach Craig Bellamy declined to buy into the issue afterwards. Despite the loss, Bellamy admitted his admiration for his Storm winger Israel Folau, who scored two of Queensland's three tries - the second a stunning effort in which he sailed over the top of Melbourne teammate Anthony Quinn AFL-style to grab a Johnathan Thurston kick and touch down.

"I think I'm pretty lucky with the talent I've got," Folau said. "But I do a fair bit of AFL catching style in Melbourne so, I've got to say that's helped a fair bit, too."

Thurston, who was presented with the Wally Lewis medal for player of the series by "The King" after the win, rated his award above the Dally M medal he has won twice.

"We've won three in a row, how good is that," Queensland coach Mal Meninga said. "As far as I'm concerned, these guys deserve all the accolades they get. It was a bit of a war zone, losing Prince after 15 minutes, that put a bit of a dent in the way we played. "But JT [Thurston] stood up, Karmichael [Hunt] stood up, Smithy stood up …"