Career
A forward, Fell played his early football at Glenorchy and was the TFL Statewide League"s leading goal-kicker in 1989 with 114 goals before opting to ply his trade on the mainland. Fell was initially recruited to Geelong but they offloaded him to Sydney in the 1989 VFL Draft. The forward kicked five goals to equal the club record of most goals by a player in their first game with the club
He finished the year with 30 goals, his tally including a six-goal haul against Geelong at the Structural Civil Geotechnical.