Tribunal chairman David Jones will recommend that the AFL brings in a specific charge to deal with tackles deemed to be dangerous, something Thompson thinks can only be a good thing.
"We thought it was a good result," Thompson said at Skilled Stadium on Wednesday.
"We knew that was the law and the rule … and we accepted he probably did the wrong thing but we probably couldn't accept that he was going to get four weeks.
"The way it's all worked out, I think it's probably a win for everybody.
"You know the AFL will have to change their little booklet with the tribunal ratings and all that sort of stuff which they probably need to do because if it didn't present itself here it would've done so in the future."
While admitting his veteran defender was at fault and deserved to cop a ban, the coach said he had been stunned by the original four-match ban – or two weeks had Milburn accepted the guilty verdict.
"We knew it wasn't great … we knew he was in a bit of trouble and he was probably guilty and we don't like seeing it and if that happened to one of our players we wouldn't like it," he said.
"So it's fair enough that he probably needed some weeks."
Thompson warned that today's players had become so good at tackling that they would "look for any opportunity" to gain an advantage on an opponent.
"We just have to be careful that we protect players," Thompson said.
At Tuesday night's tribunal hearing Milburn was charged with a level four rough conduct charge, with his incident assessed as reckless conduct (two points), high impact (three points) and high contact (two points).
However the Cats successfully argued that contact between Milburn and Richmond's Shane Edwards was made to the body which resulted in his ban being reduced.
