[2] He was unable to play the following week after his face was splashed with battery acid from his car, causing chemical burns.
[3] Hutchinson did not play another senior game for the club, although he won the reserves best and fairest award in 1985, and transferred to the Frankston Football Club in the Victorian Football Association (VFA) for the 1986 season.
[1] In 1987, Hutchinson again transferred clubs, moving to Subiaco in the WAFL (based in Perth, Western Australia), and won the club's Best First Year Player award.
[4] As a result of his form in the WAFL over the following seasons, including playing in Subiaco's premiership side in 1988, he was drafted by the West Coast Eagles in the VFL with the 38th pick in the 1990 Pre-season Draft.
Hutchinson did not play a senior game for West Coast, and left Subiaco at the end of the 1993 season, having played 105 games and kicked 44 goals for the club.