Journalist Caroline Wilson has slammed North Melbourne following their tumultuous 2020 campaign that saw the Kangaroos finish the season with three wins and a 17th-placed finish.

Wilson discussed the leaders of the club have failed to steer the club in the right direction, with a number of North Melbourne' board members coming under fire.

“It just feels like it is carnage at that football club,” Wilson said on Channel 9's Footy Classified. 

“I want to focus on two big off-field personnel and that is Ben Amarfio the CEO. The CEO, the previous one Carl Dilena was removed as they wanted a CEO with football and cultural smarts.

“(There is) Increasing disenchantment that Ben Amarfio never went up to the hub to oversee what was going on with clearly players in disarray and a rookie coach and rookie football manager.

“Then you’ve got the rookie football manager, head of football in Brady Rawlings, urged by West Coast not to leave, to finish his contract there.

“I think Trevor Nisbett, the experienced CEO said, you’re not quite ready.”

Wilson continued to suggest club legend Glenn Archer was in greater control than Rawlings.

“I understand he (Rawlings) put his latest plan to the board. I’m not sure that any of it was listened to, the last coaches to get the flick were Jarred Moore, Heath Scotland and of course his brother Jade Rawlings,” she said.

“Their view is they weren’t let go by Brady Rawlings, this is all done by the board. In fact, Glenn Archer, is clearly running that football club on every level. I’m not sure that, that is healthy.

“Last week a group of the patrons got together for their annual meeting. Huge disenchantment with Ben Buckley, the Sydney based chairman and former CEO of soccer. Then you’ve got Greg Miller, Mark Dawson and Francis Trainor, three well-known former North people about talking about wanting to get on the board and having some say, they are so worried about their football club.

“There is a view that they are one foot away from seven games a year in Tasmania, maybe more. I think there is more to come at the Kangaroos.

“Brady Rawlings must be feeling like he has absolutely no say whatsoever Glenn Archer there looking over his shoulder. It’s all Glenn Archer. I do think Ben Buckley has to have a look at himself and the way that football club has been run really by remote of the two most senior people at the club and that’s the chairman and the CEO.

“Clearly that will change next year when they are back based in Melbourne, but there is a view within the club there are too many good players being let go and what will they be left with.”

A number of Kangaroos players are reportedly interested in departing the club, while the Kangaroos have already let go of 11 players.