The issue we were having is we have a sprite mask and it didnt seem to work with the mask. However we used this Stencil buffer setting and it seems to have worked: https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/176170/how-to-use-a-sprite-mask-or-shader-to-mask-a-text
I have absolutely no idea what this does or why it works. But it seems to for now...