let me take a different approach to this and recommend that the player should have taken a different approach to the ball--
there is obviously a downwind and an upwind side to the flag, and the player is not entitled to clear placement at the spot of choice, simply to legitimate placement within the arc, which is a yard in radius; certainly there was some spot within the arc that was not occluded by the flagpost, and that is the spot from which the player should have taken the corner kick
what would your ruling have been had the player wanted to wait until water or mud had dried before kicking? would you have had a ball chaser daub up the water making a dry kicking perch as well
I think I would agree with your assignor and Coach B in this one; play the conditions, and restraint of the flag is not allowable, by rule for the player and therefore by extension for anyone
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