 He played alongside Brett Kenny, Mick Cronin, Peter Sterling and Eric Grothe.It was only the presence of Five-eight Kenny and the partnership he had with Sterling that saw Ella play most of his first grade games in the centres where he formed the NSWRL premiership's most lethal centre pairing alongside Cronin.He was a member of four Premiership winning sides at Parramatta in 1981, 1982, 1983 and 1986 as well as the 1984 Grand Final loss to Canterbury-Bankstown.