Caroline Wilson suggests there is potential "carnage" at North Melbourne, believing that influential club great and current board member Glenn Archer is having a significant say in their off-season movements.
The club is currently re-shaping their playing and coaching ranks after a disappointing season, delisting 11 players and publicly putting star forward Ben Brown up for trade.
They also parted ways with several assistant coaches and brought back dual premiership player and former Sydney Swans assistant John Blakey to work under current senior coach Rhyce Shaw.
Wilson has now revealed that there’s angst internally around CEO Ben Amarfio and football boss Brady Rawlings’ roles at the club.
She said that Archer was currently overseeing football operations at the club, potentially undermining both Rawlings and Amarfio.
“It just feels like it’s carnage at that football club,” she said on Channel 9’s Footy Classified.
“I want to focus on two big off-field personnel – (firstly) Ben Amarfio who is the CEO. The previous CEO Carl Dilena was removed because they wanted someone with football and cultural smarts.
“There’s increasing disenchantment that Ben Amarfio never went up to the hub to oversee what was going on with players clearly in disarray, a rookie coach and football manager.
“Then you’ve got Brady Rawlings, urged by West Coast (last year) not to leave and finish his contract there. Their experienced CEO in Trevor Nisbett said he was not quite ready.
“I understand he put his latest plan to the board not so long ago and I’m not sure any of it was listened to.
“The last coaches to get the flick were Jarred Moore, Heath Scotland and his brother Jade Rawlings, their view was that they were not let go by Brady Rawlings and this was all done by the board and Glenn Archer.
“Archer is clearly running that football club on every football level and I’m not sure that is healthy.”
Archer returned to the club’s board this year, just a year after stepping down from his role as football director due to increased business commitments elsewhere.