[RJS]

Official partnership = sanitised opinions

Yes, but sanitised output is probably better than no output at all.  A vehicle to hear more from the players will also be good.  As its Severn Sport running it the club also couldn't stop them from being critical if they so wished, although they can obviously remove their backing.  In addition if it was felt an unofficial critical podcast was needed then there is literally nothing stopping people who want that setting it up.