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.
"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 Callam 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 we got some stuff off Hendo's Takeaway and Coffee, and Absolute Diesel supplied some new stainless steel benches.
"It's higher this time, we're probably looking at not as much damage inside but more damage outside."
For club secretary Kase Beasley, seeing the cub inundated was heartbreaking.
"We were getting heaps of messages asking when training was starting but unfortunately our club is going to have to bear with us," she said.
"I'm proud to be a part of this community."
