Left-winger Ethon became the latest attacking addition to the Town ranks signing from Cheltenham Town at the end of the 2025 summer transfer window.
Archer will continue his immediate development with the League Two club, with the Robins retaining his services on loan until January.
Born in Croydon, the left winger grew up in nearby Wallington and after leaving school, he joined the Kinetic Academy, studying at the same time as training on a daily basis.
At 17, Archer gained experience in men’s Non-League football with Whyteleafe, playing a handful of matches for the Isthmian League South East Division side before Covid brought a temporary halt to his progress in 2020.
By his own admission, he then “bounced about a lot”, playing on the Power League courts across the road from his home before joining another local Step 4 club, Bedfont Sports, for a spell in 2021/22, then moving to Sutton Common Rovers, who soon loaned him to Combined Counties League side Horley Town.
After impressing there, Archer joined Raynes Park Vale ahead of the 2022/23 season and really found his feet, scoring 15 goals as the south-west London outfit won the Combined Counties Premier Division title.
In that summer of 2023 he went on trial at Scottish Championship club Ayr United, but eventually signed for Welling United, then in National League South, who immediately sent him out to play games at Isthmian Division One South East side Three Bridges.
After scoring twice in his first seven appearances for the Sussex club at the start of the 2023/24 campaign, a week’s trial at Torquay led to Gary Johnson, the former Cambridge, Bristol City and Yeovil manager, signing him for the National League South club.
The move to Devon meant Archer putting his full-time jobs, which had ranged from working in retail, as an Amazon delivery driver and a matchday steward at AFC Wimbledon, behind him to concentrate on full-time football.