BRAD Scott says his reappointment as North coach until the end of 2018 is further proof the "stable" club is heading in the right direction.

As foreshadowed on AFL.com.au last week, North announced on Monday that Scott, who was already contracted for next season, had signed a two-year contract extension.

In a message to the club's members, Scott, 39, said he was "ecstatic" that North still saw him as the right man to lead its playing group.

Scott will enter his seventh season as North coach next year and says the off-field stability that the club has enjoyed in his time at Arden Street has it well placed for the future.

"I think if you look at all the really strong clubs over the last two decades, their strength comes from stability," Scott said from North's high-altitude training camp in Utah.

"We've been able to build over the last five years and put a lot of things in place and we're really looking forward to our future. That stability gives all the coaches, all the players and administrators (confidence)that we are heading in the right direction."

Despite making consecutive preliminary finals over the past two seasons, Scott said North wasn't taking anything granted in 2016.

"Finishing in two preliminary finals doesn't mean you start any further ahead or any further behind any other team in the competition," Scott said.

"In 2015, we were bitterly disappointed, we really felt we gave ourselves every opportunity to win the game (preliminary final) and we didn't capitalise on it. We would have really looked forward to giving it a red-hot crack on Grand Final day.

"They've been two really hard Grand Finals to watch in 2014 and 2015. That will drive us through the pre-season, but as I said it doesn't give us a head start or handicap us in anyway, it's what we do from this point on that's going to matter."

Scott has coached North to 76 wins from 139 games at a success rate of almost 55 per cent.

The two-time Brisbane Lions premiership player initially oversaw a patient youth-based rebuild of North's list, but has now led the Roos into three of the past four finals series.