The Roos, the Western Bulldogs and Carlton are the three clubs most affected by an agreement with the venue operators, where sub-par attendances cost them money.
Speaking from Arden Street on Tuesday morning, Arocca said that anything less than 31,000 patrons at Saturday night's clash with Port Adelaide meant North would have to pay the stadium operators.
"We're being flippant about saying, 'Lock the doors and keep them out and we'll make more money'," he said.
"But it just crystallises how painful this is at the moment ... they (Carlton) pull 42,000 people and get a cheque for 17 grand [$17,000]. That's disgraceful.
"Every person under that figure (31,000) starts driving the figure (match- day return) down until you get to minus five dollars per head.
"When you realise clubs are getting 20,000 people and writing out cheques for $100,000, there's not a lot of time up our sleeve."
Arocca said the League had signed off on the deal with Docklands in the late 1990s and North's ventures to the Gold Coast and Canberra in recent years were encouraged by the lopsided arrangement.
Clubs like Carlton were selling home games to interstates venues because of it, he said.
The Blues play Fremantle at Gold Coast Stadium this week, however, North's re-commitment to its base means all of its home games are in Melbourne for the first time in more than a decade.
"They (the AFL) came out and declared it was going to be the greatest thing for AFL football and Victorian clubs," Arocca said.
"It's been probably the one thing that's affecting the clubs most and more than any other."
However, Arocca acknowledged the support of current AFL chief Andrew Demetriou in trying to get a new deal.
Demetriou, whose grievances also extend to the MCG, said on radio in March that the competition would consider a third Melbourne venue if negotiations between clubs and the stadia remained at stalemate.
The current agreement with Docklands is in place until 2025.
"We just want to keep the issue front and centre with the AFL and with Melbourne Stadiums and make sure they understand that in a tough year it's getting even tougher" Arocca said.
"In essence, this stadium is slowly killing four or five clubs. If we have to wait another 15 years to get the stadium into the AFL's hands, we're simply not going to survive."
Arocca said there was correlation between North Melbourne's debt and its stadium deal but the club had never been too reliant on its match returns.
"For the last 10 years, we've always lost money," he said. "Our key drivers have always been sponsorship and membership. Fortunately, they're two areas that are holding up.
"We are still hopeful of making a profit [this year] but clearly we have to re-forecast down on the basis that we thought there was going to be a stadium deal."
Arocca said he expected the deal to be broken eventually but questioned what it would cost clubs in the meantime.
