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.

โ€œIt just feels like it is carnage at that football club,โ€ Wilson said on Channel 9's Footy Classified. 

โ€œI 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.

โ€œ(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.

โ€œThen youโ€™ve got the rookie football manager, head of football in Brady Rawlings, urged by West Coast not to leave, to finish his contract there.

โ€œI think Trevor Nisbett, the experienced CEO said, youโ€™re not quite ready.โ€

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

โ€œI understand he (Rawlings) put his latest plan to the board. Iโ€™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,โ€ she said.

โ€œTheir view is they werenโ€™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. Iโ€™m not sure that, that is healthy.

โ€œLast 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 youโ€™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.

โ€œThere 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.

โ€œBrady Rawlings must be feeling like he has absolutely no say whatsoever Glenn Archer there looking over his shoulder. Itโ€™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 thatโ€™s the chairman and the CEO.

โ€œClearly 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.โ€

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