Floodwaters devastate Maryborough Brothers junior rugby league club for second time this year

Filled with mud, destroyed furniture and with debris strewn all over the clubhouse floors. That would be a devastating sight for any local sports club, but it's an unwelcome case of deja vu for Maryborough Brothers junior league club.

Just six weeks after the Brothers' clubhouse was torn apart by raging floodwaters, another recovery effort awaits. 

The club, on Queensland's Fraser Coast, held a junior sign-on day last week with training scheduled to start just days before the flood hit. 

As the water recedes, club officials are desperately trying to undertake their second clean-up effort in time for kids to start their season. 

Club president Tony Putman is hoping the clean-up will only take a few weeks. 

«Having to gurney all the mud out is the worst bit of it; it's not so much picking up the debris, it's more the mud because it's two-inches thick in some places,» he said. 

«Trying to get that out of the floor and off the walls.

»I don't know how many floods we have has gone through since I've been at the club but take the walls off and it will probably have mud in there.

«It's just disappointing really, the amount of time and effort that went into cleaning up the first time. 

»We've got great community spirit and that's what our club is built on, people have given up their own time to come down and help us it's one of those things where we will just overcome it.

«It will be a few weeks now until the kids can start training.»

Fundraising coordinator Callum Cross said the water level at the clubhouse was higher than the January floods.

«Last month it flooded our kitchen and our canteen, and we lost everything because we didn't have much time to get stuff out,» he said.

«This time we've been a bit better prepared, after the last flood