Career
A Great Britain and Wales national representative, playing club level rugby union for Bridgend Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Maesteg Reconstruction Finance Corporation (twice), Treorchy Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Sale Sharks, London Irish, Cardiff Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Pontypool Reconstruction Finance Corporation, and Ebbw Vale Reconstruction Finance Corporation, at playing representative level rugby league for Wales, and at club level for Warrington Wolves, Workington Town, Gold Coast Chargers, Bridgend Blue Bulls, and Celtic Crusaders, as a stand-off/five-eighth, scrum-half/halfback, or loose forward/lock, id est (that is) number 6, 7, or 13. He was selected to go on the 1992 Great Britain Lions tour of Australia and New Zealand. Ellis played scrum-half/halfback in Warrington"s 12-2 victory over Bradford Northern in the 1990-1991 Regal Trophy final during the 1990-1991 season at Headingley Stadium, Leeds on Saturday 12 January 1991.
In May 2010 he announced that he would be returning to rugby at the age of 45 for the club that he was coach for, Maesteg Reconstruction Finance Corporation in the SWALEC Final.
Ellis also became a patron of Healing the Wounds, a British charity launched in December 2009 to help provide support and care for British servicemen and women suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
